Dong Son drum

 Dong Son drum (rain drum)

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Đông Sơn drums (also called Heger Type I drums) are bronze drums fabricated by the Dong Son culture, in the Red River Delta of northern Vietnam. The drums are one of the culture's finest examples of metalworking.

The drums, cast in bronze using the lost wax method, are up to a 40 centimeter in height and weigh up to 10 kg. Dong Son drums were apparently both musical instruments and cult objects. They are decorated with geometric patterns, scenes of daily life and war, animals and birds, and boats. The latter alludes to the importance of trade to the culture in which they were made, and the drums themselves became objects of trade and heirlooms.