Rattle. Round stick passes through a gourd placed near end of shaft; shaft covered with blue and white glass seed beads in circular linear design; leather fringe; remnants of feather at top of shaft. Gourd incised with picture of two angels playing harps with cross in background on which is printed "Jesus Only", same wording is lettered on one of the strips of leather fringe. Cotton thread; netted stitch.
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley)
Collection place:
Southern Plains, Great Plains, North America
Verbatim coll. place:
; Southern Plains
Culture or time period:
Southern Plains tribes
Collector:
Francis C. Hutchens
Collection date:
ca. 1900
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Musical rattles
Function:
5.4 Secular and Religious Musical Instruments
Accession date:
1974
Context of use:
Used in peyote ritual.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 31 centimeters and length 51 centimeters
Comment:
References: Hail, Barbara A. Hau, Kola, Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Brown University, 1980, p. 182 #226.