The drums, the stand and the frame are all quite roughly made
but elaborately decorated with colourfully painted wood carvings,
called 'okiran'.
The stand for the large gong is a copy
based on photographs of a stand used by a Maranaw cultural group.
The stand was made for the exhibiton 'Ugnayan, music in the
Philippines', in 1977 in the The Hague Municipal Museum and
in 1978 in the Rotterdam Ethnographic Museum.
Ethnic group: Maranao
Location: Central-west Mindanao (muslim south)
More or less similar ensembles are played
by:
- Maguindanao, Central-west
Mindanao (muslim south)
- Taosug, Sulu
Archipelago (muslim south)
- Samal, Sulu
Archipelago (muslim south)
- Bajao, Sulu
Archipelago (muslim south)
- T'boli, SE Mindanao; k'lintang