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.