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Name: Quiada de burro (donkey's jaw bone)

Type: percussion instrument (material in use, full donkey jaw).

Region: Afro-peruvian, (Lima, and neiboring departments). Departments are the Peruvian equivilant to provinces/territories, states/counties, ETC.

Source: Market out side the Vancouver Folk Festival, year 2005.

Description: This instrument in its "natural" form is a jaw-bone from a donkey. hence the name. The playing method though is quite unique, struck by holding the instrument from where the teath are, (the mandable reigion close to the teath). This jaw-bone is held by the left hand and struck by the right hand on the side of the jaw.