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A Đông Sơn drum in Guimet Museum, Paris. The earliest written records describing the drum appeared in the Shi Ben, a Chinese book dated from the 3rd century BC.The Hou Hanshu, a late Han dynasty book dated to the 5th century AD, describes how the Han dynasty general Ma Yuan collected bronze drums from northern Vietnam to melt down and recast into bronze horses.
Drum from Sông Đà, Vietnam.Đông Sơn II culture. Mid-1st millennium BCE. Bronze. A Đông Sơn drum (Vietnamese: Trống đồng Đông Sơn, lit. 'Bronze drum of Đông Sơn'; also called Heger Type I drum) [1] is a type of ancient bronze drum created by the Đông Sơn culture that existed in the Red River Delta.
A Đông Sơn axe Dong Son drum from Sông Đà, Mường Lay, Vietnam.Dong Son II culture. Mid-1st millennium BC. Bronze. The Dong Son culture, Dongsonian culture, [1] [2] or the Lạc Việt culture (named for modern village Đông Sơn, a village in Thanh Hóa, Vietnam) was a Bronze Age culture in ancient Vietnam centred at the Red River Valley of northern Vietnam from 1000 BC until the ...
The Ngoc Lu drum is regarded as one of the most important and prominent artifacts of the Dong Son culture of the Bronze Age, a civilisation that flourished in around the 2nd to 3rd century BC in the Red River Delta of Vietnam.
The Moon of Pejeng, also known as the Pejeng Moon, [1] in Bali is the largest single-cast bronze kettle drum in the world. [2] and "the largest known relic from Southeast Asia's Bronze Age period." [3] It is "considered highly sacred by local people." [4] It is thought to be a relic of early rice cultivation rituals. [5]
The Chinese Bronze Age began in the Xia dynasty (c. 2070 – c. 1600 BC), and bronze ritual containers form the bulk of collections of Chinese antiquities, reaching its zenith during the Shang dynasty (c. 1600 – c. 1046 BC) and the early part of the Zhou dynasty (1045–256 BC).
Pejeng drum (also Pejeng-type drum) is a type of Bronze Age kettledrum which was produced across the archipelago of Indonesia between the 1st and 2nd century AD. They are one of Indonesia's finest example of metalworking. [ 1 ]
The drum included a hoard of bronze objects. The rarity of such objects in Southeast Asia and the range found at Cổ Loa is believed to possibly be unique. [2] The drum itself is one of the largest Bronze Age drums to have been recovered from the Red River Delta, standing 57 cm high and boasting a tympanum with a diameter of 73.6 cm.