Medicne drum heads 

What drum is right for me?
Size:14", 18", or 22"
hide: deer, goat, buffalo, kangaroo, fur on, or even vegan 

This page a has a description of drum types, pictures and a youtube playlist at the end which goes through a series of short video's on different drum types, it also has an 8minute vid discussion about drum choice.

Animal or Vegan medicine? 

A traditional drum is made from raw hide; the choice of animal skin should be chosen based on ethical sourcing, what is available, the appearance, the sound and the animal's archetypal energy. 

Animal Medicine

Kangaroo medicine is native to australia, the skins i source are living wild untill shot for being a pest on a land that they have roamed long before farmers ( but that's  another story right. grrrr). Still a quick passing. Further the skins are a by product of the meat inducsty.
They are light, bouncy, free and very much Australian. The hides are thin and often partially see-through in appearance with great reverberation and a higher pitch sound. As the kangaro hides are thinner, they can go out of tune with a change of moisture. there is a variable tension adjustment i have for this.

Goat hide is a more traditional medicine to the asia, Europe and north africa, it's one of the first domesticated animals. Also, think Capricorn in archetype. The hides are relatively thick, but still light with good reverberation and hold a deeper sound. The hides I source are free-range and a by-product of the meat industry. Availability dependant, i have  Australian goat hides often a little darker with a spine line and also Pakistani goat hides which have a more textured or mottled appearance.

Deer are native to everywhere except Australia and Antarcica. The reasonance is similar to goat, They can have plain or strong variation in appearance and colour with occasional see-through parts. Deer is currently in short supply as the deer meat industry in Australia is small.

Water Buffalo hide has strong connection to Native American culture. It is typically a thicker hide with deeper sound similar to cowhide. The colouring is often mostly transparent, with some variation, and the resonance is powerful.

Fur on hides i may have a few available, in a range from cow, goat, horse and buffalo. Ask for more info on these

Clearing trauma / creating medicine

Through my mostley self taught initiation in working with animal medicine it's been huge to source ethical hides; also work with people in trauma clearing to transmute the energy of the animal passing into a clean aninmal medicine drum. This passes on through all the drums i make and workshops i facilitate so the maker can simply offer a blessing to the animal and transmute it into medicine.

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Vegan medicine

The only traditional natural material vegan drum's are made from is wood, they're quite big and this isn't possible for a medicine drum. I've done a lot of research and will continue to consider natural materials for a vegan drum. Experiments i've done include vegan leathers (leather has poor reasonance compared to raw hide), seaweed kelp drums with inconsistent shrinkage, lucky to get a decent size and poor resonance and growning scoby's, super brittle (a by product of kombutcha). So i've come back to what modern day drums are made from and they work perfectly with consistency in all weather.
They have a very neutral energy, which emphasises the importance of the medicine of creation in the ceremony of drum making to infuse a light, harm no-thing vegan medicine.
The skin is clear and can be painted, stenciled or drawn with certain mediums. when you book in for a vegan workshop you will receive more info on preparing for your soul infused artwork.

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