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.