Rattle

Museum number:
2-61610
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.3323
Description:
Made of red ocher-stained buckskin over wood; rounded head; handle has green glass seed beads wrapped around it in 3 places; small bundle of dyed porcupine quills wrapped with buckskin tied to head.
Donor:
Virginia Vail
Collection place:
Wind River Reservation, Wind River, Wind River County
Verbatim coll. place:
Wyoming; Wind River Reservation
Culture or time period:
Eastern Shoshone
Collector:
James K. Moore Sr.
Collection date:
ca. 1900
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Musical rattles
Function:
5.4 Secular and Religious Musical Instruments
Context of use:
May be curio.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 28.5 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 5 titled Rattle, accession number 2-61610, described as Made of red ocher-stained buckskin over wood; rounded head; handle has green glass seed beads wrapped around it in 3 places; small bundle of dyed porcupine quills wrapped with buckskin tied to head.Hearst Museum object 2 of 5 titled Rattle, accession number 2-61610, described as Made of red ocher-stained buckskin over wood; rounded head; handle has green glass seed beads wrapped around it in 3 places; small bundle of dyed porcupine quills wrapped with buckskin tied to head.Hearst Museum object 3 of 5 titled Rattle, accession number 2-61610, described as Made of red ocher-stained buckskin over wood; rounded head; handle has green glass seed beads wrapped around it in 3 places; small bundle of dyed porcupine quills wrapped with buckskin tied to head.Hearst Museum object 4 of 5 titled Rattle, accession number 2-61610, described as Made of red ocher-stained buckskin over wood; rounded head; handle has green glass seed beads wrapped around it in 3 places; small bundle of dyed porcupine quills wrapped with buckskin tied to head.Hearst Museum object 5 of 5 titled Rattle, accession number 2-61610, described as Made of red ocher-stained buckskin over wood; rounded head; handle has green glass seed beads wrapped around it in 3 places; small bundle of dyed porcupine quills wrapped with buckskin tied to head.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Rattle, accession number 2-61610, described as Made of red ocher-stained buckskin over wood; rounded head; handle has green glass seed beads wrapped around it in 3 places; small bundle of dyed porcupine quills wrapped with buckskin tied to head.

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