Bones
Bones noun - A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
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- In "The Maid and the Negress", the black woman is punished by having her bones made into bed-steps and her skin made into a drum.
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