skull drum

English

Noun

skull drum (plural skull drums)

  1. A drum (musical instrument) made from a thin covering stretched over a hemispherical section of a human skull; also, a damaru made from two skulls.
    • 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 31:
      These sorcerers summoned the spirits with whom they worked, by blowing on horns made from human thigh bones and beating on skull drums and gongs.
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