Pejeng drum

[1] Examples of Bronze Age Pejeng drum, such as the ancient Moon of Pejeng, is the largest bronze drum in the world, indicating the advance of metal casting technique and the active trade in the archipelago in the first millennium AD.

The spread of the Dong Son drum in the Indonesian archipelago indicates an extensive trade among the kingdoms in Southeast Asia during the period.

Pejeng drum was designed in the Indonesian archipelago and was produced extensively in the island of Java and Bali in the first millennium AD.

At Plawangan, a Pejeng drum was found in burials, together with other precious objects e.g. gold necklace and iron spearhead.

Its shape consists of three parts: the head or the tympanum at the top, the middle barrel where the handle is attached, and the base.

The standardized geometric pattern of human or animal were impressed into the wax using incised stone molds.

A pejeng drum discovered in East Java, displayed in the Asian Civilisations Museum , Singapore .
The separately-cast head (the tympanum) of a Pejeng-type drum found in Sumba .
The Pejeng drum.