Mayohuacán
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mayohuac-n-258-430257
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Mayohuacán
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The mayohuacán or bayohabao was a wooden slit drum played by the indigenous Taíno people of the Caribbean. The instrument was played during sacred ceremonies, most notably the areíto. The drum was made of a thin wood and was shaped like an elongated gourd that measured up to one metre long and half a metre wide. According to early accounts of the taíno such as Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés' La historia general y natural de las Indias (1526), the sound produced by the mayohuacán could be h
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Taíno slit drum
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayohuac%C3%A1n
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2021-06-06T21:02:28Z
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