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Tlapitzalli

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A named Nahua duct flute of later festival and rite. Not a huehuetl, not a teponaztli, and not a shinobue.

Nahua tradition

Tlapitzalli appears in Nahua tradition.
The Florentine Codex describes the tlapitzalli, a Nahua duct flute of festival and rite. A named Mexica flute in that ethnography, not the teponaztli slit-drum, and not the huehuetl standing-drum.
from Bernardino de Sahagún and Nahua collaborators · Florentine Codex, c. 1577
appears in · sourced · culturally specific

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