pot drum

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    A drum that is made by filling a ceramic pot with water and then covering it with a buckskin. A pot drum is played by hitting the stretched hide with a looped drumstick made of branches. The pot drum is used during ceremonies, such as the the Navajo Enemyway.

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    "Navajo drum pot," photograph, Bilby Research Center. Bilby Research Center, Northern Arizona University. All rights reserved. Use with permission only.

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    Frisbie, Charlotte Johnson
         1967   Kinaaldá: A Study of the Navaho Girl's Puberty Ceremony. Middletown: Wesleyan
             University Press.