What are the main types of Indonesian copper drum decoration?

Most of the Indonesian bronze drums belong to the first type, but the bronze drums in Bali, have their own unique shape and style. Indonesian bronze drums are mainly decorated with light bodies, frogs, soul-carrying boats and feathered men. The light body is the sun, and the sun and the frog are cast together to show the significance related to agriculture. The feathered man on the bronze drum is the totem of the feathered man clan. But according to the ethnographer to examine: Malay - Polynesian, in the war dance, in the head of a decorated feather crown, Rouen island of copper battle-axe engraving is also engraved with a head of a decorated feather crown in the shape of a human mask; in the jade strand of bronze drums on the feathered man is also manifested as a musical instrument player and dancers, and the cruise ship (spirit ship) on the feathered man, but also manifested as a hand-carried weapons and pounding the drums.

French scholar Vikla Colupo, in his article "The Bronze Age of Tokyo and Northern Vietnam," talking about the image of a feathered figure carved on a boot-shaped bronze axe found in Higashiyama, pointed out that "this image of a sheng-type musical instrument is, I am afraid, a totem dance, a simulation of the movements of the animal by the clan that shares the name of the bird that is the same as that animal. "

Along with the development of the arts of carving and painting, the arts of music and dance also developed. In addition to bronze drums, there were also bronze drums made of leather in the shape of elephant feet. In southwestern China, the elephant-footed drums were made of leather, and the elephant-footed bronze drums were imitations of the elephant-footed drums. It may be that some tribes in Indonesia used to use the elephant foot drum as a percussion instrument, in the Dayak people's soul-carrying boat picture and the picture of extreme happiness, there is also a copper drum-shaped picture.