[PnP] pnp Digest, Vol 140, Issue 14

[David Sanders]

I did some web wandering.  I couldn't find much else as an option.  I did see that the 'drum' would often look more like a tambourine.  The drum could be carried in a decorated satchel bag.

The thing about the drum is it helped the shaman connect to the rhythms of nature...and from there enter into their trance from which the magic could more easily flow.  So...if you had some other way to connect to those natural rhythms, you might be able to use that...but I don't know what kind of instrument it could be.  Sometimes maybe bells/gongs...?  Cymbals, sticks to hit together, blocks of wood, castanets, sistrum (bells/cymbals on a stick or staff), scrapers (wood with corrugated carvings where you run a stick up and down the ridges), maybe even a cabasa.  

Anyway, I think you would need to stick with something primitive cultures could make by hand.

Some other things.  Rattles were fairly prevalent.  They could be made from wood, hide, or other natural materials.  Think of them like a wizard's wand.  The noise-making parts could be inside the rattle or even on the outside.  They uses rocks and dried seeds to make the rattle noise.

Masks were very common.  Highly decorated and made from all sorts of materials.



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> Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2017 09:30:20 -0400
> From: Scott Adams <longshotgm at comcast.net>
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> Subject: [PnP] Shamanic Drum
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> I will have ot check my files that Alex did a lot of Q&A with Richard.
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> But do you think he meant for only the Drum or something else?
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> Why can't a diff shaman use a totem of bones or totem of feathers or such?
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> Do yo uguys allow non-drum shamanic focus? Focii? (sp)
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