[62] The Kickapoo once tried a four-legged brass kettle instead of the regulation three-legged iron one, but soon discarded it, having decided that the tone was not right (this probably rationalizes some criticism of their ostentation). The Caddo had a 10-marbled crock drum with a deer skin head; the Oto, who have the kettle drum, sometimes use a crock, as do the Omaha (Gilmore, _The Mescal Society_, 166; _Uses of Plants_). The Delaware sometimes used otter skin instead of deer skin, with four bosses tightened with a sharp stick or deer-horn (Harrington, _Religion and Ceremony_, 188; Petrullo, _The Diabolic Root_, 50). [63] Cf. the Mexican belief about the peyote under the gourd-resonator. Such taboos in regard to drums are also Iroquoian I believe, and possibly Southeastern. [64] Skinner, _Societies of the Iowa_, 726; Densmore, _Winnebago Songs of Peyote Ceremonies_. [65] The Chickasaw beat on a wet deer skin tied over the mouth of a large clay pot (Adair, _History_, 140). The Choctaw beat with one drumstick on a deer skin stretched over an earthen pot or kettle (Swanton, _Social and Religious Beliefs_, 222); they used the goat skin covered cypress knee drum as well (Bushnell, _Choctaw_, 22), and also bear skin and deer skin (Swanton, _op. cit._, 224). The Koasati older drum was deer skin over a cypress knee, and later the small iron kettle (Paz, _Field Notes_). The Taskigi Creek used a hollow vessel partly filled with water (Speck, _The Creek Indians_, 137). The Yuchi, besides the log drum, had the pot drum, containing water, about 18″ high; the hide was usually decorated with a wheel-like design and the privilege of beating the drum was invested in a certain individual (Speck, _Yuchi_, 61, cf. the Caddo, in some respects a peripheral Southeastern group and who have the “crock” drum). The Catawba and Quapaw also had the pot-drum (Speck, _Catawba Texts_; _Handbook of the American Indian_, 2:335b). It is not known if the Tonkawa water-drum is pre-peyote, but the Lipan pottery drum is late according to Opler. The water-drum of the Southeast is continuous through the Antilles into South America (Wissler, _The American Indian_, 154).