The Bask region has been known for years as an organized society where everyone minds his or her business. The rate of crime there is also reduced and they are basically agrarians. They usually store their agro products in local barns mostly built behind their houses, usually huts.
For yams, they usually store them in barns. From there they take the ones for their consumption and the ones they will like to sell in their market. The barns are also built under shades either in front or at the back of their compounds. These barns usually stay like that till the next harvesting season. No thieves tamper with them.
As an organized community they have means of gathering themselves when need be. They either sound their gong or beat the drum. The gong has a male and female one. The female one is used by the women folk and its sound is distinct and unique - feminist in nature too while the male one sounds deep and masculine in nature. The difference is usually from the sounds they produce.
But the drum - that's a big one. It is usually kept at the community square and rarely used. Folklore hare it that to beat the drum means a terrible thing has happened in the community which requires all to converge at the community square immediately.
It is also beaten when an important personality or an elderly person has passed away or when something of a serious matter has happened and the community is required to gather immediately - such as the advent of a war or community invasion by outsiders. In any event, when they beat the drum it means urgency and all adults must gather at the community square.
That has been the case in the agrarian community which unites them. Most of their neighbours still wonder how they usually respond to attacks and events spontaneously without knowing that the community has been united for ages with the beating of the drums by their forefathers.
A Five Minute Freewrite: Beat The Drum
