12", 15", 18" or 20" Siberian Style Painted European Style Pegged Rawhide Shamanic Drum with a Soft Beater
This is a custom made and painted drum, available in your choice of reindeer, red stag deer or horse rawhide, with a wooden or antler handle. The artwork is painted in red ochre, and will be sized appropriately to your drum.
This image comes from a shaman's drum in Siberia. The main figure divides the three worlds of the shaman, and the details are designed to connect the shaman and their drum. In the middle world, the figures represent the shaman themselves and are different for each shaman. The drum shown has the shaman in nature, gathering knowledge through reading with her crow spirit helpers above her. She plays her drum for her horse spirit helper, then does energy healing with the assistance if her hawk spirit helper. Finally, she meditates in a wild place to connect with the spirits of the land. Your drum will reflect you and your interests, helpers & paths.
Although I suggest this art as being appropriate for my northern European style pegged drums, you can have it on any drum. Please contact me if this is your wish.
Our Northern European line of drums for those who really care about the sound and feel of their sacred instrument. These drums have had been "smoked and stroked" through special techniques of construction, setting the head, and drying, developed by a master drum maker and an experienced jazz/rock percussionist. Together, we make instruments that have balance, harmonics and tone, that are more comfortable to hold and to play, and that are in integrity with the animals and plants who have given their lives so that these drums may live.
We start with sanding each hoop to silky smoothness, so that the head will slide easily and not bind on the hoop. Our 12" to 18" hoops are hand made by us of Cedar at this time, while the 20"drum us made on Deodar Cedar, a tree whose name means "God's Tree" and whose wood is considered sacred. Cedar is a cleansing wood, and can be used to create sacred space.
These drums are constructed with wooden pegs. The handle is a suspended piece of wood or antler ($25 extra), smooth to the touch and tied into the hoop with reindeer rawhide. Because the handle is not directly attached to the head of the drum, these drums are highly resonant.
While our drums are drying, we smudge them frequently with sage, sweetgrass, amber & other sacred herbs. This not only keeps the energy pure and beautiful, it lays down a layer of smoke that helps the drums be more resilient to weather and temperature changes (of course, all hide drums are going to have some variations). We also talk to them and smooth the sides as they dry. When the drums come to life, they just sound and feel wonderful!
At this time, we offer our European Style drums in Red Stag Deer, Horse or Reindeer in 12", 15", 18" & 20" sizes. The Reindeer comes from Finland, and has been both the sustenance and the life blood of many Northern Europeans, as well as being instrumental in certain Shamanic rituals.
These drums impress even me, the maker. Their sound is primal. It feels like the sound our ancestors heard on those fire-lit nights centuries ago as they processed into the stone circle. A very special drum. These drums are also extremely resistant to weather changes.
This is a custom made and painted drum, available in your choice of reindeer, red stag deer or horse rawhide, with a wooden or antler handle. The artwork is painted in red ochre, and will be sized appropriately to your drum.
This image comes from a shaman's drum in Siberia. The main figure divides the three worlds of the shaman, and the details are designed to connect the shaman and their drum. In the middle world, the figures represent the shaman themselves and are different for each shaman. The drum shown has the shaman in nature, gathering knowledge through reading with her crow spirit helpers above her. She plays her drum for her horse spirit helper, then does energy healing with the assistance if her hawk spirit helper. Finally, she meditates in a wild place to connect with the spirits of the land. Your drum will reflect you and your interests, helpers & paths.
Although I suggest this art as being appropriate for my northern European style pegged drums, you can have it on any drum. Please contact me if this is your wish.
Our Northern European line of drums for those who really care about the sound and feel of their sacred instrument. These drums have had been "smoked and stroked" through special techniques of construction, setting the head, and drying, developed by a master drum maker and an experienced jazz/rock percussionist. Together, we make instruments that have balance, harmonics and tone, that are more comfortable to hold and to play, and that are in integrity with the animals and plants who have given their lives so that these drums may live.
We start with sanding each hoop to silky smoothness, so that the head will slide easily and not bind on the hoop. Our 12" to 18" hoops are hand made by us of Cedar at this time, while the 20"drum us made on Deodar Cedar, a tree whose name means "God's Tree" and whose wood is considered sacred. Cedar is a cleansing wood, and can be used to create sacred space.
These drums are constructed with wooden pegs. The handle is a suspended piece of wood or antler ($25 extra), smooth to the touch and tied into the hoop with reindeer rawhide. Because the handle is not directly attached to the head of the drum, these drums are highly resonant.
While our drums are drying, we smudge them frequently with sage, sweetgrass, amber & other sacred herbs. This not only keeps the energy pure and beautiful, it lays down a layer of smoke that helps the drums be more resilient to weather and temperature changes (of course, all hide drums are going to have some variations). We also talk to them and smooth the sides as they dry. When the drums come to life, they just sound and feel wonderful!
At this time, we offer our European Style drums in Red Stag Deer, Horse or Reindeer in 12", 15", 18" & 20" sizes. The Reindeer comes from Finland, and has been both the sustenance and the life blood of many Northern Europeans, as well as being instrumental in certain Shamanic rituals.
These drums impress even me, the maker. Their sound is primal. It feels like the sound our ancestors heard on those fire-lit nights centuries ago as they processed into the stone circle. A very special drum. These drums are also extremely resistant to weather changes.
This is a custom made and painted drum, available in your choice of reindeer, red stag deer or horse rawhide, with a wooden or antler handle. The artwork is painted in red ochre, and will be sized appropriately to your drum.
This image comes from a shaman's drum in Siberia. The main figure divides the three worlds of the shaman, and the details are designed to connect the shaman and their drum. In the middle world, the figures represent the shaman themselves and are different for each shaman. The drum shown has the shaman in nature, gathering knowledge through reading with her crow spirit helpers above her. She plays her drum for her horse spirit helper, then does energy healing with the assistance if her hawk spirit helper. Finally, she meditates in a wild place to connect with the spirits of the land. Your drum will reflect you and your interests, helpers & paths.
Although I suggest this art as being appropriate for my northern European style pegged drums, you can have it on any drum. Please contact me if this is your wish.
Our Northern European line of drums for those who really care about the sound and feel of their sacred instrument. These drums have had been "smoked and stroked" through special techniques of construction, setting the head, and drying, developed by a master drum maker and an experienced jazz/rock percussionist. Together, we make instruments that have balance, harmonics and tone, that are more comfortable to hold and to play, and that are in integrity with the animals and plants who have given their lives so that these drums may live.
We start with sanding each hoop to silky smoothness, so that the head will slide easily and not bind on the hoop. Our 12" to 18" hoops are hand made by us of Cedar at this time, while the 20"drum us made on Deodar Cedar, a tree whose name means "God's Tree" and whose wood is considered sacred. Cedar is a cleansing wood, and can be used to create sacred space.
These drums are constructed with wooden pegs. The handle is a suspended piece of wood or antler ($25 extra), smooth to the touch and tied into the hoop with reindeer rawhide. Because the handle is not directly attached to the head of the drum, these drums are highly resonant.
While our drums are drying, we smudge them frequently with sage, sweetgrass, amber & other sacred herbs. This not only keeps the energy pure and beautiful, it lays down a layer of smoke that helps the drums be more resilient to weather and temperature changes (of course, all hide drums are going to have some variations). We also talk to them and smooth the sides as they dry. When the drums come to life, they just sound and feel wonderful!
At this time, we offer our European Style drums in Red Stag Deer, Horse or Reindeer in 12", 15", 18" & 20" sizes. The Reindeer comes from Finland, and has been both the sustenance and the life blood of many Northern Europeans, as well as being instrumental in certain Shamanic rituals.
These drums impress even me, the maker. Their sound is primal. It feels like the sound our ancestors heard on those fire-lit nights centuries ago as they processed into the stone circle. A very special drum. These drums are also extremely resistant to weather changes.