Rattle

38571

From: New Mexico

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 38571
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Pueblo (uncertain)
Provenience New Mexico
Culture Area Southwest Culture Area
Section American
Materials Gourd | Pigment | Hide | Seed (uncertain)
Description

A double gourd rattle with a wooden handle inserted. The gourd is painted with an indiscernible design using dark pigment. The handle is wrapped with long, leather tassels both where it enters the gourd and where it exits the gourd on the other side. Leather tassels are also wrapped around the center of the gourd. Tassels at the end of the gourd and around the center both have a single feather attached. The end of the handle has a hole with a short, leather strap attached.

Length 57 cm
Width 24 cm
Credit Line Wanamaker Expedition to the Southwest, R. Stewart Culin, 1901
Other Number 319 - Field No SF

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