Chile (and neighboring Argentina) is home to the cultrún, a ceremonial drum that stands apart from nearly everything else on this site — it has no connection to the Mediterranean tambourine lineage that produced most of the world’s frame drums. The cultrún belongs to the Mapuche people and is used by the machi (healer) in ritual and ceremonial contexts, including the annual Ngillatun fertility rite. See the Cultrún page below.