Okay, it's a pair of sticks, see http://www.musicofpuertorico.com/index.php/instruments/palitos/

... but they're used a lot in Latin American music like salsa.

(I'm not sure, it might also work to add them as an alias for the Claves, since they look similar, at least according to the Wikipedia page that also cites them in Afro-Cuban music: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claves)