Skip to search
Skip to main content
Skip to search results
Hearst Museum Portal
About
Bookmarks
0
History
Feedback
Login
Search in
Any Field
Museum number
Alternate number
Accession number
Object name
Object class
Description
Donor
Collection place
Production place
Culture or time period
Maker or artist
Collector
Collection date
Materials
Taxon
Person depicted
Place depicted
Culture depicted
Inscription
Object type
Function
Context of use
Keeling series
Department
Loans
Search
Advanced Search
Give
Search
Limit your search
Object name
❯
Choose one:
Double rattle
1
objects
Fiddle and bow
1
objects
Gourd rattle with string and bead decoration
1
objects
Zither
1
objects
Object class
❯
Select all that apply:
Musical instruments
4
objects
Sound devices (equipment)
4
objects
Chordophones (stringed instruments)
2
objects
Idiophones (instruments that produce sound by vibrating the instruments themselves)
2
objects
Indirectly struck idiophones
2
objects
Rattles (indirectly struck idiophones)
2
objects
Struck idiophones
2
objects
Zitherlike chordophones
2
objects
Amulets
1
objects
Beads (pierced objects)
1
objects
more
Object class
»
Object type
❯
ethnography
4
objects
Collection place
❯
Select all that apply:
Africa
4
objects
British West Africa (historic)
4
objects
Nigeria
✖
Remove constraint Collection place: Nigeria
4
objects
Western Africa
4
objects
North Central Nigeria
2
objects
Northern Nigeria
2
objects
Plateau State, Nigeria
2
objects
Asaba, Nigeria
1
objects
Bukuru, Plateau State, Nigeria
1
objects
Delta State, Nigeria
1
objects
more
Collection place
»
Year collected
❯
View distribution
Current results range from
1962
to
1962
Year collected range begin
Year collected range end
View larger
»
Year collected
[Missing]
3
objects
Collector
❯
Leonard Plotnicov
✖
Remove constraint Collector: Leonard Plotnicov
4
objects
Donor
❯
Select all that apply:
Leonard Plotnicov
4
objects
University Appropriation
4
objects
Culture or time period
❯
Select all that apply:
African cultures
4
objects
Western African cultures
4
objects
Igbo
2
objects
Nigerian cultures
2
objects
Birom
1
objects
Hausa
1
objects
Accession number
❯
Acc.1717
4
objects
Accession year
❯
View distribution
Current results range from
1962
to
1962
Accession year range begin
Accession year range end
View larger
»
Accession year
Function
❯
5.4 Secular and Religious Musical Instruments
4
objects
Loans
❯
Select all that apply:
S1972-1973 #90: Music (UC Berkeley) (April 26, 1973–June 22, 1973)
✖
Remove constraint Loans: S1972-1973 #90: Music (UC Berkeley) (April 26, 1973–June 22, 1973)
4
objects
S1979-1980 #16: Music (UC Berkeley)/Ollie Wilson (October 15, 1979–December 11, 1979)
4
objects
S1992-1993 #9: Music (UC Berkeley)/Ollie Wilson (September 18, 1992–November 2, 1992)
4
objects
S1970-1971 #69: Music (UC Berkeley)/Ollie Wilson (January 14, 1971–June 11, 1971)
3
objects
S1963-1964 #16: Cole Elementary School/Beverly D. Deffes (September 24, 1963–September 25, 1963)
2
objects
S1970-1971 #3: Anthropology (UC Berkeley) (July 9, 1970–July 9, 1970)
2
objects
S1979-1980 #57: International House (UC Berkeley) (April 11, 1980–April 14, 1980)
2
objects
S1969-1970 #22: Bay Area Committee to Save Biafran Children (September 11, 1969–September 23, 1969)
1
objects
S1974-1975 #4: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (July 19, 1974–February 7, 1975)
1
objects
S1974-1975 #67: Civic Arts Center (Walnut Creek) (February 5, 1975–May 7, 1975)
1
objects
more
Loans
»
1
-
to
4
of
4
Sort
by Object name
Object name
Museum number
Number of results to display per page
10
per page
per page
10
per page
20
per page
50
per page
100
per page
View results as:
List view
Gallery view
Masonry view
Slideshow view
Image
Missing
: Hearst Museum object titled Double rattle, museum number 5-3101, described as Double rattle; Oyo; dome-shaped fiber containers with gourd bottom cover; filled with pebbles; 12.5 inches high.
Image
Missing
: Hearst Museum object titled Fiddle and bow, museum number 5-2932a-d, described as A) Fiddle; Goge; gourd box; reptile skin head; horse hair string; red leather trim; B) Bow; M'bakan Goge; made from nail puller; horse-hair string; leather handle; C) lump of resin; Karu; D) Magic amulet; leather with geometric designs.
Image
Missing
: Hearst Museum object titled Gourd rattle with string and bead decoration, museum number 5-3112, described as Small gourd rattle; Shaka; knotted red yarn netting on outside surface.
Image
Missing
: Hearst Museum object titled Zither, museum number 5-3031, described as Cane Zither; Yom Kwo; composed of a series of cane lashed together, "strings" made from split cane; pitch controlled by wrapping varying thicknesses of fiber around "strings".
×
Double rattle
1 of 4
Fiddle and bow
2 of 4
Gourd rattle with string and bead decoration
3 of 4
Zither
4 of 4
previous image
next image
Pause Slideshow
Start Slideshow