The Ilimba drum is a musical instrument from

Zimbabwe Zimbabwe (), officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country located in Southeast Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the south-west, Zambia to the north, and ...

. The body of the drum is made from the hard outer shell of a

gourd Gourds include the fruits of some flowering plant species in the family Cucurbitaceae, particularly ''Cucurbita'' and '' Lagenaria''. The term refers to a number of species and subspecies, many with hard shells, and some without. One of the ear ...

Sources

*Dorling Kindersley, ''Children's World Atlas'', DK Children, 2 June 2008, African drums Gourd musical instruments Zimbabwean musical instruments {{Membranophone-instrument-stub