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Teponaztli

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A named Nahua slit-drum of rite and later festival. Not a generic drum, not Kagura suzu, and not a damaru.

Nahua tradition

Teponaztli appears in Nahua tradition.
The Florentine Codex describes the teponaztli, the Nahua slit-drum of rite and festival. A named sounding-log in that ethnography, not a generic drum and not the mācuahuitl from the same book.
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).