Our drum skins were cut out of an elk hide.
We began my making the holes in our skins to attach them to the rims.
We began to thread the sinew.
It was hard to get started... 




 but once you got going it was easier.

Working together made the work go smoothly.

Tightening the sinew was hard work and took a lot of time.


Almost finished.

We gathered together to send our ancestors back to where they came from and to thank everyone for working together.

Davita told us that we should have a special place for our drum and that we should talk to it and even feed it. She said that our drum would remember the songs we sing with it.