Ntumpani

Ntumpani chief *talking drum of the Ashanti of Ghana, played in pairs; barrel-shaped, on a cylindrical base, with single head stretched over a hoop and laced to pegs projecting from the body. The membrane, of elephant ear, is beaten with drum sticks. Cf. atukpani, atumpani (162). Rattray, R. S. Ashanti. Oxford, 1923.