Home / Living Traditions / Northern and Eastern Europe

Encyclopedia ID 388

Skrabalai

Also known as Lithuanian wooden cowbells

Skrabalai: photograph by Imodab
Photo: Imodab, CC BY-SA 4.0, source on Wikimedia Commons

A set of tuned wooden boxes with clappers is shaken or struck in a pattern, rolled into a ring of drums.

Heritage note

Part of the living heritage of Lithuania.

Origins

A living tradition passed from person to person; it is not tied to a single dated origin. It belongs to the cultural world of Northern and Eastern Europe.

Sources

Related entries

More from Lithuania

All 3 traditions from Lithuania See them on the map