Rattle
- Museum number:
- 2-47036
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21020047036
- Accession number:
- Acc.2534 and Acc.2537
- Description:
- Peyote rattle; gourd mounted on dowel with wood plug; handle beaded in three pieces in "peyote beadwork" (bead netting technique) in spiral design; horsehair tuft on upper end, twisted buckskin fringe on lower end.
- Donor:
- Dennis Lessard, Lewis K. Napton, Robert Fleming Heizer, University Appropriation, and various collectors
- Collection place:
- Rosebud Reservation, Todd County, South Dakota
- Verbatim coll. place:
- South Dakota; Todd; Rosebud Reservation
- Culture or time period:
- Teton Dakota
- Collector:
- Dennis Lessard
- Collection date:
- 1969
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Musical rattles
- Function:
- 5.4 Secular and Religious Musical Instruments
- Accession date:
- 1969
- Context of use:
- Part of ceremonial equipment used in peyote ritual; held in left hand and shaken while singing. Peyote ritual not indigenous to Dakota, has spread from Oklahoma.
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Dimensions:
- length 55 centimeters
- Comment:
- Exhibited: "UCLMA Plains Indians, 1971" References: "Howard, James N., "Half Moon Way: The Peyote Ritual of Chief White Bear" in Univ. of S. Dakota Museum News also Slotkin, The Peyote Religion.
- Legacy documentation:
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