Perforated gourd with string and bead decoration

Museum number:
5-5931a,b
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.2171
Description:
a) gourd rattle; length 28 cm; slipped into b) net-like fiber container strung with seed rattles (Job’s tears); cf. 5-531111, 3112; length 40.5 cm
Donor:
Warren L. d'Azevedo
Collection place:
Liberia
Verbatim coll. place:
Liberia; unspec.
Collector:
Warren L. d'Azevedo
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Beads (pierced objects)
Accession date:
1965
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Loans:
S1974-1975 #4: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (July 19, 1974–February 7, 1975) and S1974-1975 #67: Civic Arts Center (Walnut Creek) (February 5, 1975–May 7, 1975)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Perforated gourd with string and bead decoration, accession number 5-5931a,b, described as a) gourd rattle; length 28 cm; slipped into b) net-like fiber container strung with seed rattles (Job’s tears); cf. 5-531111, 3112; length 40.5 cm
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Perforated gourd with string and bead decoration, accession number 5-5931a,b, described as a) gourd rattle; length 28 cm; slipped into b) net-like fiber container strung with seed rattles (Job’s tears); cf. 5-531111, 3112; length 40.5 cm

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