DCHP-1 Online
medicine drum 
a drum used by medicine-men (def. 1a) in their incantations.
See also: medicine-man (def. 1a)
- 1801 (1897) The fellow came accordingly with his drum and medicine bag. . . .
- 1861 The sick woman was lying in a buffalo skin tent; the conjuror, painted and decorated, employed himself in beating a medicine drum within a few feet of her.
- 1898 His medicine drum was very similar in shape to an old fashioned dasher churn.
- 1801 (1897) The fellow came accordingly with his drum and medicine bag. . . .