page_title: Dong Son drum
section_title: Hoàng Ha
hierarchical_section_title: Dong Son drum / Notable drums / Hoàng Ha
caption_attribution_description: English: Hoang Ha bronze drum's surface
context_page_description: A Dong Son drum is a bronze drum created by the Dong Son culture in the Red River Delta of northern Vietnam. The drums were produced from about 600 BCE or earlier until the third century CE; they are one of the culture's most astounding examples of metalworking.
  The drums, cast in bronze using the lost-wax casting method are up to a meter in height and weigh up to 100 kilograms. Dong Son drums were apparently both musical instruments and cult objects. They are decorated with geometric patterns, scenes of daily life and war, animals and birds, and boats. The latter alludes to the importance of trade to the culture in which they were made, and the drums themselves became objects of trade and heirlooms. More than 200 have been found, across an area from eastern Indonesia to Vietnam and parts of Southern China.
context_section_description: The Hoàng Ha drum is a notable Dong Son drum. It was discovered in Hòa Bình Province in 1937 near the village of Hoàng Ha, with an outer panel of crane egrets and an inner panel which shows a procession similar to that described in the Ngọc Lũ drum, the most famous of the Dong Son drums. It depicts four feathered men are depicted walking in a line, brandishing spears, with two musicians in tow. A person is depicted standing under the eaves of a house, beating a drum while the rice fields are unattended, allowing a bird to eat the rice that was intended for threshing. The boats depicted on the mantle of the drum are very similar, with an analogous cleft prow, archer standing on raised platform and a drum. However, the drum is different from the Ngoc Lu drum in that the animal is absent.
caption: Hoàng Ha bronze drum's surface, Vietnam
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