Ikoro

Ikoro

An ikoro is a musical instrument created and used by the Igbo. It is a slit drum that is beaten with a stick or hand and can be used in some parts of Igbo land for communicating similar to a talking drum.

This is a picture of a man beating an Ikoro drum at an Okwe festival: http://www.siu.edu/~anthro/mccall/ohafia/igboscans/dibia/Ikoro.jpg


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