Note 44 — PREFACE. (continued 7)

The drums here referred to were made most conveniently from coconut log sections, the pithy nature of its core lending itself more readily to hollowing, whether by firing or adze-chipping till reaching the hard surface wood. These hula drums were about two feet in height, as the performer used them while in a sitting or kneeling position, tapping with the open hand on the shark-skin head, as it stood on the ground beside him. ↑