Rattle

Museum number:
1-4362
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010004362
Alternate number:
1609 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.135, Acc.136, Acc.137, and Acc.138
Description:
Gourd, rattle type. Designed with pin-holes in geometric shapes and painted with bands of black thick lines. Handle of mesquite wood is attached to gourd with pitch.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Southwestern United States
Verbatim coll. place:
Southwest
Culture or time period:
Mohave
Collector:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection date:
1904
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Gourds (plant components) and Musical rattles
Function:
5.4 Secular and Religious Musical Instruments
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
Musical rattle.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
circumference 40 centimeters and length 30 centimeters
Loans:
S1956-1957 #3: Education Department (UC Berkeley)/Patricia Hughes (July 17, 1956–April 1, 1957) and S1979-1980 #9: DeAnza College (August 31, 1979–December 17, 1979)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Rattle, accession number 1-4362, described as Gourd, rattle type. Designed with pin-holes in geometric shapes and painted with bands of black thick lines. Handle of mesquite wood is attached to gourd with pitch.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Rattle, accession number 1-4362, described as Gourd, rattle type. Designed with pin-holes in geometric shapes and painted with bands of black thick lines. Handle of mesquite wood is attached to gourd with pitch.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Rattle, accession number 1-4362, described as Gourd, rattle type. Designed with pin-holes in geometric shapes and painted with bands of black thick lines. Handle of mesquite wood is attached to gourd with pitch.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Rattle, accession number 1-4362, described as Gourd, rattle type. Designed with pin-holes in geometric shapes and painted with bands of black thick lines. Handle of mesquite wood is attached to gourd with pitch.

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