Making a small personal drum
Today Jean and I went to a drum making workshop, taught by Mi'kmaq elder Carolyn Landry in Kentville NS. We each made our own personal drum. This is how the day went. We were wondering how we would be able to pull this off in our given 1 and 1/2 hour workshop. The secret? That wood ring is pre made and the soaking deer hide already cut to size and punched. We are essentially putting together a kit. It is then a very do-able project under our instructor supervision. The hide and the stringing lanyards are both deer hide. The lanyards are cut in a circle to make really long strings. The hardest part is centering, and keeping it centered, our hide. Mine is up front, Jean to my right. I got a strip cut (a tad short, yikes) and strung around my hide. NO tape measure, we just guesstimated the length with our eyeballs :-) Once tied loosely around, making sure the hide is still centered. The remainder of the long lanyard is tied to the strip that was weaved a...