Two Articles in This Week's Navajo Times

[Riverkilt]

Good eye Jerry,

Navajos, and I suppose many Nations, play a single sided drum like that, but never seen it played like a Celtic drum, though most of the beaters are two sided, they are much longer.

My guess is that the beaters are made to pad the hand on one end and beat the drumskin on the other. Never seen a Native drumming with a short beater. Will keep an eye out though...

Ron

[Moosehead]

Ron, you are correct. One end is simply wrapped (sometimes with a little padding) for a handle. The other end usually has more padding, and is rounder, and is the beating end.