Your drum could be a dholak (with a dot below the d; a laced, double-headed barrel drum). A picture can be seen in:
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians / ed. by Stanley Sadie. - London : Macmillan, 1980 [et al.]
Vol. 5, p. 640, fig. 1: from Jaipur, North India

The bewildering entanglement of thongs could be an elaborate device for tensing the drum - so be careful!

Boom boom
Wilfried

P.S. My good and learned friend mooman here is exceptionally right in my praise; thanks for the good estimation.

Peace
W