slit-drumCultures/periods: AztecProduction date: 1300 -1521Field Collection by: William Ockelford
slit-drum Cultures/periods: AztecProduction date: 1300 -1521Field Collection by: William Ockelford OldmanFindspot: Mexico Provenience unknown, possibly looted McEwan 1994, p.7:‘This horizontal drum (known as teponaztli in the Aztec language Nahuatl) is made from a specially chosen wood and embellished with a low relief carving of of the head of a horned owl (tecolotl). As a creature of the night that nests in hidden recesses, the owl was perceived as an emissary from the underworld’ British Museum -- source link
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