What are the shapes and production process of the Doki leather drums of the Li people?

Cultural and religious implements made of dolomite wood include dolomite skin drums, knife cylinders, idols, dharma seals, wooden suona, and dingtongs.

Doki drums are the traditional tools of the Li people for recruiting people, rituals and as musical instruments. Dokki drums are mostly hung on the highest mountain ridge in the center of the mine, while smaller ones are mostly hung under the eaves of the house of the head of the mine.

Doki drum by a section of 0.5 meters to 1 meter long, 0.3 meters to 0.5 meters in diameter, the middle is slightly larger, slightly smaller at both ends of the large round wood hollowed out, both ends of the masked cowhide, with the old bamboo roots cut into nails or nails nailed tight. Buffalo, buffalo can be, buffalo skin thick and coarse, playing the drum sound low; yellow cowhide thin, bright sound.

In the process of making the drum, but also a series of religious ceremonies, given a lot of mystery. On the drum body and the drum surface are decorated, human patterns and their geometric designs are carved on the drum body and painted; paintings are made on the drum surface, mainly depicting hunting objects, hunting scenes and so on.

These paintings mainly include game meat, wild boar, fish, deer hunting, people riding deer, people riding horses, people shooting game and so on. The picture is realistic, vivid and imaginative. Only on the drum surface of the skin drum found Li relatively mature paintings, is the most valuable information for the study of Li paintings.

Pictures are basically related to wild animals and hunting, which speculates that the dolomite drums may initially be related to hunting, hunting, that is, the hunting rituals used to entertain the gods, hunting signals and so on.