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PAINTED DRAGON TIBETAN BUDDHIST CHOD DRUM (Item No. Chod Drum 01)

Price: £145 (including postage worldwide)

Origin: Tibet or Nepal
Age: 50 - 100 years approx
Diameter of drum head: 188mm (7.4 inches approx)

Beautifully painted with dragons, this is an old wooden damaru - known as a chod drum as they are used in Tibetan Buddhist chod practice as well as other Tantric Buddhist practices.

the drum is in beautifull condition and the skins are glues firmly to the frame, although the damp air of West Wales where this gallery is makes the skins slack - in a drier hotter climate they would dry and shrink again to give a better sound. However even in damp Wales the drum is playable and has a good sound.

The skins are painted in the normal green colour and have a gold painted design in the middle of each side. The drum comes with an old original tail.

A very special drum with beautiful painted dragon designs, it would be useable for practice or would make a beautiful drum for display.

For more information about damaru and chod drums please read the article about the ritual objects of Tibetan Tantra on the articles page of this website.

TRADITIONAL SIBERIAN STYLE SHAMANS DRUMS

Price: negotionable

Nicholas Breeze Wood has been making shamanic frame drums for more than 25 years - making many hundreds over that time.

He has a great love of Mongolian and Siberian shaman's drums and has studied their construction and methods of decoration. He makes drums for shamanic practitioners in a sacred way with the aid of his spirits using solid beechwood drum frames and reindeer skins, often including original shamanic metalwork in the drums like the originals. Each drum comes with a traditional paddle beater - often with iron rings on the back to they can act as a rattle too.

Although not original, old, shamans from Mongolia, the drums Nicholas makes are none the less real shaman's drums for ritual use.

For more information or to discuss commissioning a drum please email • Nick@sacredhoop.org.

TANTRIC LAMA or SHAMAN'S DAMARU DRUM (Item No. Damaru 01)

Price: £32 (including postage worldwide)

Origin: Nepal
Age: 20 - 70 years approx
Diameter of drum head: 98mm (3.8 inches approx)

Tibetan Buddhist, double sided 'damaru' drum made from wood.

Drums like this are used in tantric rituals by lamas and Tibetan and some Nepalese shamans.

The drum is in excellent condition, with tight skins (probably goat) and has a very good sound.

For more information about damaru and chod drums please read the article about the ritual objects of Tibetan Tantra on the articles page of this website.

SHAMAN'S DRUM (DHYANGRO) CHEPANG PEOPLE (Item No. Frame Drum 02)

Price: £285 (including postage in UK)
(Postage to Europe - additional £20)
(Postage Outside of Europe - additional £75)

Origin: Nepal
Age: 80 - 150 Years Approx
Diameter: 420mm (16.5 inches approx)
Depth of Frame: 173mm (6.8 inches approx)

A stunning, completly authentic, well used, museum quality, large single-sided village shamans drum from the Chepang tribe of Nepal.

The drum is a deep, hand-shaped wooden hoop with a single stretched skin over the front. The skin is laced onto the hoop with ratan as is the traditional method. The method of construction used in this drum means that the skin is folded back on itself - this folding back can be seen in the photos of the front of the drum, they show a small ring of additional skin around the edge of the hoop, which is the folded back skin rather than a defect in the skin..

The drum is held by means of two wooden struts bound with ratan at the back - one of which has come loose. Most of the ratan binding is missing and what is there is loose.

The drum is decorated by a quantity of iron chains and hand made iron cones and other shapes which jingle when it is played or moved.

The condition of the drum is good, the wood is sound and the skin is in generally good condition with no tears or major damage, although there are a few small holes (which will not get any worse unless the drum is treated badly), The skin is not as tight as it once originally was, and so the sound of the drum is poor. It is not really a drum to be played except with great care, rather it would be suited for a private collection or a museum.

It does not come with a drum stick which originally would have been a stick ment from bent bamboo.

The drum offers a chance to own a beautiful unique real shamans drum - single sided drums like this rarely come onto the market and one complete with it's iron cone bells and chains makes this a stunning object.

SHAMAN'S DRUM (DHYANGRO) (Item No. Frame Drum 03)

Price: £285 (including postage in UK)
(Postage to Europe - additional £20)
(Postage Outside of Europe - additional £75)

Origin: Nepal
Age: 70 - 125 Years Aprrox
Diameter: 230mm (9.2 inches approx)
Overall Length: 605mm (23.75 inches approx)
Depth of Frame: 132mm (5.25 inches approx)

Authjentic, used traditional double sided Nepalese shaman's drum (dhyangro) with well carved wooden phurba handle.The two drum skins represent male and female. The male side is the side which has the edge of the phurba's blade and the female is the side with the flat of the phurba's blade. The skins of these drums traditionally should be bear and a drum of this age may be bear, although it is hard to tell for sure.

The drum is in excellent condition, the skins are tight and it has a good sound. It is laced with thin cord rather than the normal ratan, but the cord is the same age as the drum and it is very well made. There are some strips of ancient cloth decoration around the head of the phurba handle. The drum has somethings rattling around inside it when it is moved, this is intentional and these loose objects are normally small stones, or a stone, a bone and a sea shell. There is no original drum stick with the drum, but it will come with a newly made bamboo drum stick similar to the one it would have originally have had so it can be played.

This is a beautiful, useable drum with tight skins and great overall character. It would be suitable for shamanic practice or display. It is of high quality and would be suitable for a museum or a private collection.