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Huehuetl

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A named upright Nahua drum of hide and log. Not Teponaztli the slit-drum, not Damaru, and not a generic drum.

Nahua tradition

Huehuetl appears in Nahua tradition.
The Florentine Codex describes the huehuetl, the upright hide drum of Nahua rite. A named standing-drum in that ethnography, not the teponaztli slit-drum and not a generic drum.
from Bernardino de Sahagún and Nahua collaborators · Florentine Codex, c. 1577
appears in · sourced · culturally specific

sources

Florentine Codex · Bernardino de Sahagún and Nahua collaborators
Bernardino de Sahagún, General History of the Things of New Spain (Florentine Codex).