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Bribri tribe: Traditional cylinder drum - Talamanca Mountains, Costa Rica
$368.00
Code: MITA034
Size: 25 1/2" tall x 10”wide (65 x 26 cms)
Drums for most indigenous groups of the Americas, drums are a vital element in such cultures right up to our present times. Drums are powerful connections to the ancestors and spiritual realms of today's surviving Native groups - the Bribri are certainly no exception. The heartland of the Bribri people is the southern Caribbean watershed of Costa Rica. This traditional drum takes the shape (carved in the local balsa wood) of the ancestral cylindrical body of traditional drums of the Talamanca Mountains indigenous people (the drum would be slung over one's shoulder to be played). The drum head is stretched boa skin. Made in the village of Watsi, Talamanca Indigenous Reserve.
Size: 25 1/2" tall x 10”wide (65 x 26 cms)
Drums for most indigenous groups of the Americas, drums are a vital element in such cultures right up to our present times. Drums are powerful connections to the ancestors and spiritual realms of today's surviving Native groups - the Bribri are certainly no exception. The heartland of the Bribri people is the southern Caribbean watershed of Costa Rica. This traditional drum takes the shape (carved in the local balsa wood) of the ancestral cylindrical body of traditional drums of the Talamanca Mountains indigenous people (the drum would be slung over one's shoulder to be played). The drum head is stretched boa skin. Made in the village of Watsi, Talamanca Indigenous Reserve.