Object class: Sound devices (equipment) / Collection place: Haupt Ranch, Sonoma County, California - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Dance rattle, accession number 1-16, described as Dance rattle, wood, split stick; polished from usage; rectangular sound chamber cut into wood near proximal end; broken at distal end of chamber.

Hearst Museum object titled Rattle, accession number 1-15, described as Cocoon rattle, wood shaft with 10 silk moth cocoons on feather quills attached to wood shaft with commercial cotton string. Gravel or clam disc beads in cocoons. Ceanothus silk moth (Samia rubra, Behr or Hyalophora euryalus, Boisduval) cocoons; wood shaft probably (Holodiscus discolor) "Cream Bush".

Hearst Museum object titled Whistle, accession number 1-11, described as Single bird bone tube, one hole. Pitch inside tube under hole. End closed with pitch. Ends cut and hole probably made with steel tools (hole appears to have been made with triangular file).

Hearst Museum object titled Whistles, accession number 1-12a,b, described as Whistles; each composed of two hollow wooden tubes bound together with cotton string. Each tube has a single hole with pitch partially closing the air way under each hole. The ends of each tube are closed with pitch. Probably made with elderberry, with pith removed. Notched cut with steel knife and tied together with cotton.