Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Inuit children playing on pile of empty oil drums. Moriussaq, Northwest Greenland, 1997.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Inuit drum made from sealskin and used for traditional drum dances. Qaanaaq, Northwest Greenland, September 2008.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Elderly Nenets man holding sacred drum, which he made in 1946. Yamal, Western Siberia, Russia, 2001.

RHONDA KLEVANSKY / Band performing at the Oruro Carnival, the biggest annual cultural event in Bolivia, with Morenada music and dancing originating from the Bolivian Andes, Bolivia, South America, February 2009.

RHONDA KLEVANSKY / Band performing at the Oruro Carnival, the biggest annual cultural event in Bolivia, with Morenada music and dancing originating from the Bolivian Andes, Bolivia, South America, February 2009.

RHONDA KLEVANSKY / Drummers during parade performance at the Oruro Carnival, the biggest annual cultural event in Bolivia, with Morenada music and dancing originating from the Bolivian Andes, Bolivia, South America, Feb...

RHONDA KLEVANSKY / Band performing at the Oruro Carnival, the biggest annual cultural event in Bolivia, with Morenada music and dancing originating from the Bolivian Andes, Bolivia, South America, February 2009.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Dogon boys wrestling to beat of goatskin drums, a local tradition. Mali, West Africa, 1981.

Michele Westmorland / Portrait of street musician playing for cruise passengers. Roseau, Dominica, West Indies, Caribbean. July 2008. Model released

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Oil drums discarded by US military on the Melville Peninsula, Nunavut, Canada, 1992.

Kristel Richard / Drummers of La Maison Du Roy (the Royal House) of the Garde Républicaine (Republican Guard), part of the French Gendarmerie, mounted on Selle Français horses at the Caserne des Célestins, Paris, Fr...

Kristel Richard / Drum horse of The Household Cavalry, dressed in official uniform, parades in front of the Queen, during the Royal Windsor Horse Show, Windsor, England, UK. May 2008

Michele Westmorland / Clipper Odyssey tourist cruise boat moored off Ambrym Island, Vanuatu. Ambrym is famous for its tamtams (slit gong drums). It has also been called Black Island because of its dark volcanic soils.

Michele Westmorland / Dance performance by villagers in beautiful full masks, Ambrym Island, Vanuatu. Ambrym is famous for its tamtams (slit gong drums). It has also been called Black Island because of its dark volcanic so...

Michele Westmorland / Clipper Odyssey tourist cruise boat moored off Ambrym Island, Vanuatu. Ambrym is famous for its tamtams (slit gong drums). It has also been called Black Island because of its dark volcanic soils.

Michele Westmorland / Dance performance by villagers in full masks, Ambrym Island, Vanuatu. Ambrym is famous for its tamtams (slit gong drums). It has also been called Black Island because of its dark volcanic soils. May 2...

Michele Westmorland / Dance performance by villagers in full masks, Ambrym Island, Vanuatu. Ambrym is famous for its tamtams (slit gong drums). It has also been called Black Island because of its dark volcanic soils. May 2...

Michele Westmorland / Dance performance by villagers in full masks, Ambrym Island, Vanuatu. Ambrym is famous for its tamtams (slit gong drums). It has also been called Black Island because of its dark volcanic soils. May 2...

Bernard Castelein / Nepalese monks, playing 'Nha' or hand-drum during 'Duk chu' festival, Lo-Manthang, Upper Mustang, Nepal

Pete Oxford / Walrus gut bags used for floats or drums, Little Diomede Aleut Community Bering Sea, Alaska, USA

Juergen Freund / Female dancers at Sing-Sing celebration with drums, grass skirts and shell jewellery. Tufi, Oro Province, Papua New Guinea

Igor Shpilenok / Dali Lusing spinning the prayer drums in a Buddhist temple, Kalmykia, Russia.

Onne van der Wal / Old barrels and drums at the abandoned whaling station in Husvik, South Georgia.

Jim Brandenburg / Drums of radioactive waste, Namibia