Kultrún
The kultrún is the sacred drum of the Mapuche of Chile and Argentina, a shallow wooden bowl covered with a hide head and beaten with a single stick or by hand, played almost exclusively by the machi, the ritual specialist and healer. Its head is painted with a quartered design, a cross and the four directions, which orients the ceremony and maps the structure of the Mapuche universe, and around it the ngillatun ceremony of prayer and thanks is built. The machi sounds the kultrún to summon the spirits, to guide healing rites called machitun, and to call the community into a single rhythm; the d