Khol
#936520th century
Wood, leather, tuning paste
ᐃᓗᓕᖏᑦ
Found in eastern India and Bangladesh, this drum, protected by elaborate lacings, is used to accompany kirtan, the sacred Vaishnava devotional music. Its name is a variation of hol, a word for drum used in many South Asian regions.
9365. Khol
ᑐᑭᓯᒋᐊᕈᑎᒃᓴᒃᑲᓐᓃᑦ
- ᐊᖏᓂᖏᑦ
- Diam. 15 × L. 25 1/2 × 13 in. (38.1 × 64.8 × 33 cm)
- ᐊᑭᓕᒃᓴᖃᐅᑎ
- Gift of Herbert J. Harris, 1986
- ᐃᓯᕈᓐᓇᐅᑎᐅᑉ ᓈᓴᐅᑎᖓ
- 1986.467.19