teponaztli

Mention must be made of the wooden drums -- _teponaztli_ -- of which some few specimens are still to be seen in Mexico.

Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern Edward Burnett Tylor

He had painted gourds filled with pebbles that rattled when they were shaken; the long clarin of the Mexicans, into which the performer does not blow, but through which he inhales the air; the harsh turé of the Amazon tribes, that is sounded by the sentinels who sit all day long in trees, and that can be heard, it is said, at a distance of three leagues; the teponaztli, that [70] has two vibrating tongues of wood, and is beaten with sticks that are smeared with an elastic gum obtained from the milky juice of plants; the yotl-bells of the

The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde 1877