Maracas

Museum number:
3-29245
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.3868
Description:
Maracas, a pair- engraved coconuts with wood handles a) Havana and lighthouse on one side hut and trees on other side; length circa 27 cm; b) Cuba with flag on one side, shaft-like monument with eagle on top, water in foreground on opposite side; height circa 28 cm.
Donor:
Barbara E. Busch
Collection place:
Havana, Cuba
Collector:
Barbara E. Busch
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Maracas
Function:
5.4 Secular and Religious Musical Instruments
Accession date:
November 1983
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Maracas, accession number 3-29245, described as Maracas, a pair- engraved coconuts with wood handles a) Havana and lighthouse on one side hut and trees on other side; length circa 27 cm; b) Cuba with flag on one side, shaft-like monument with eagle on top, water in foreground on opposite side; height circa 28 cm.

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