Rattle fragment
- Museum number:
- 5-16755a-ff
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm210516755a@2dff
- Alternate number:
- 516755
- Accession number:
- Acc.4739
- Description:
- dance rattle fragments; 32 fragments of palm frond/seed rattles folded to form a pyramid shape. segments are/were originally strung on a double cord.
- Donor:
- Berta Bascom
- Collection place:
- Nigeria
- Verbatim coll. place:
- West Africa; Nigeria; Ibo
- Culture or time period:
- Igbo
- Collector:
- Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
- Materials:
- Palm
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Musical rattles
- Function:
- 5.4 Secular and Religious Musical Instruments
- Accession date:
- June 23, 2004
- Context of use:
- Ceremonial
- Department:
- Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
- Dimensions:
- length 38.8 centimeters, minimum length— length 1.7 centimeters, width 2 centimeters, and height 2.5 centimeters
- Images:
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