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