{"id":11726,"date":"2024-01-21T23:33:50","date_gmt":"2024-01-21T23:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ejaghamtradition.org\/?page_id=11726"},"modified":"2024-01-22T02:11:58","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T02:11:58","slug":"okam","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ejaghamtradition.org\/okam\/","title":{"rendered":"Okam"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Okam<\/h2><p>Okam is a skin covered&nbsp;<em>D<\/em><em>rum<\/em>&nbsp;instrument widely used in Ejagham. The skin is stretched over one open end of a wooden carved barrel shaped shell. This makes it a Single-head drum. Okam is the heartbeat of Ejagham music. The&nbsp; types vary in size and functionality.<\/p><p>The ropes are tensioned by the use wooden wedges around the barrel. Stretching the ropes further stretch the skin to produce the desired sound when struck. The skin of animals mostly used for drumheads include: Nyep \u2013 Crocodile, Nsu \u2013 Red Deer, Otunghinjock \u2013 Elephants Ears, Nkem \u2013&nbsp; Python skin, Ngungu \u2013 Antelope etc.<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ejaghamtradition.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/C16-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"10220\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ejaghamtradition.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/C16-1530x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10220\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ejaghamtradition.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"10159\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ejaghamtradition.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/8-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ejaghamtradition.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/8-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ejaghamtradition.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/8-450x600.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.ejaghamtradition.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/8-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.ejaghamtradition.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/8-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.ejaghamtradition.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/8.jpg 780w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okam Okam is a skin covered&nbsp;Drum&nbsp;instrument widely used in Ejagham. The skin is stretched over one open end of a wooden carved barrel shaped shell. This makes it a Single-head drum. Okam is the heartbeat of Ejagham music. The&nbsp; types vary in size and functionality. The ropes are tensioned by the use wooden wedges around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11726","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","pmpro-has-access"],"better_featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ejaghamtradition.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ejaghamtradition.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ejaghamtradition.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ejaghamtradition.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ejaghamtradition.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11726"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ejaghamtradition.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11770,"href":"https:\/\/www.ejaghamtradition.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11726\/revisions\/11770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ejaghamtradition.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}