N'vike

The n'vike (alternately novike, n'vique, nobike) is a bowed string instrument native to the indigenous Toba people of the Gran Chaco of South America. A  modern instrument can be described as a composite lute-type chordophone with a neck made from a pickaxe handle, a resonator made from a tin box and a string rubbed with a bow made of horsehair. The instrument is the result of cultural fusion; Native Americans observed European-style instruments and experimented to create their own.

It is an instrument of the Quechua culture. The instrument functions to "awaken" the dance and to remind people of traditional melodies. It was sometimes accompanied by the Kopakataki drum.

The term n'vike has no equivalent in English, but refers to the act of a jaguar sharpening his claws on a tree.