Name: Cuijada de burro [Donkey Jawbone].
Type: Struck > Percussion.
Regions: Latin & South America.
Dimensions: Length
Acquisition Date: Circa year 2006.
Acquisition Source: Vancouver Folk Festival, Vancouver, Canada.
Description: The
cuijada de burro is a struck-percussion instrument that is either
selected from a donkey or horses jaw bone. Hence its name "cuijada de
burro". When played the cuijada de burro is held with the left hand by
the mandibles and struck often with a left handed closed fist.
Sometimes a stick maybe used to scrape the teeth analogous to playing a
guiro or scraper. This instrument is also quite popular in many other
areas through out Latin America. In Mexico the cuijada de burro is used
in Son Jorocho and the Costa Chica dances of Oaxaca. The cuijada de
burro is played in Northern Chile and also in the Dominican Republic.
The cuijada De burro is also heard in Candomble music from Argentina.
Citations: Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Volume 2. South America -Dale A. Olsen & Sheehy, Daniel Edward.
