These 2 drums in the American Museum of Natural History are approximately 2 feet (60 cm) long.
Percussion instrument
Classification
Percussion
Hornbostel–Sachs classification
111.2 (Percussion idiophones)
Related instruments
temple blocks, Log drums, muyu, wood block
A drawing from the 16th century Florentine Codex showing a One Flower ceremony with a teponaztli (foreground) and a huehuetl (background).This is a type of teponaztli made out of a turtle shell or ayotapalcatl[ajotaˈpaɬkat͡ɬ]
A teponaztli[tepoˈnast͡ɬi] is a type of slit drum used in central Mexico by the Aztecs and related cultures.
A teponaztli [tepoˈnast͡ɬi] is a type of slit drum used in central Mexico by the Aztecs and related cultures. Teponaztli are made of hollow hardwood logs...
illustration of the "One Flower" ceremony, from the 16th-century Florentine Codex. The two drums are the teponaztli (foreground) and the huehuetl (background)....
heritage. The original inhabitants of the land used drums (such as the teponaztli), flutes, rattles, conches as trumpets and their voices to make music...
cut-out lamellae Comb Mechanical music box Slit drum Steel tongue drum Teponaztli Music of Africa Gravikord Gerhard Kubik: "Lamellophone", in: The New Grove...
page 060 of the Codex Magliabecchi Nahua stick drummer Teponaztli Beristain, S. (2013). "Teponaztli, An Ancient Percussion Instrument". Journal of the Acoustical...
its rituals are loosely based on Aztec ritual, including the use of the teponaztli war drum and the sacred drink, pulque. The Order is organized into local...
heritage. The original inhabitants of the land used drums (such as the teponaztli), flutes, rattles, conches as trumpets and their voices to make music...
that vary significantly in concept, figure, or use. Tlapitzalli Ocarina Teponaztli Huehuetl Hom Carimba Painting – Classic period Maya paintings, found in...
dated back to ancient Mesoamerica. This word derives from the Aztec word Teponaztli, which means drum. In Aztec ceremonies this drum was used for religious...
different divisions of the army. The signal to attack was given by the drums (Teponaztli) and the conch shell trumpet (quiquiztli) blown by the trumpeter. Usually...
Type of kettle drum Tbilat Morocco, Saudi Arabia Unpitched Membranophone Teponaztli El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico Both 111.24 Idiophone Thappu India Unpitched...
"Azteca" and re introduced the use of conch shell trumpets, the huehuetl and teponaztli drums. In some cases, these were mixed with the concha (Spanish inspired...
portable and held under the arm. The horizontal slit-drums (tun, Aztec teponaztli) appear only after the close of the Classic Period, probably under Toltec...
nation-state, the original inhabitants of the land used drums (such as the teponaztli), flutes, rattles, conches as trumpets and their voices to make music...
accompaniment of the upright skin drum (huehuetl) and the horizontal log drum (teponaztli), each capable of producing two tones spanning an interval such as a fifth...
instruments used to replicate these natural sounds are huēhuētls (drums), teponaztli (a marimba-type drum), flutes, and seed pods worn around dancers’ ankles...
original Mexican instruments (mainly percussions such as huehuetl and teponaztli, but also a wide gamut of Native Mexican aerophones), for which a score...
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