sentences:  The smaller ones could either be rested on a frame or carried by straps about the shoulders.Someone who plays a "teponaztli" is called a "teponāzoāni " and "teponaztli" were used in dances, poetry, celebrations(as shown in the Florentine Codex above) or in warfare as a means of communication.According to some sources, on important state occasions the blood of sacrificial victims was at times poured into the drum.