Small in size; made of unpainted gourd. Design: small perforations (holes) surrounded by black painted linear designs. Hole at end of wooden handle with string for hanging.
Donor:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection place:
Needles, San Bernardino County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; San Bernardino; Needles
Culture or time period:
Mohave
Collector:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection date:
February 1908
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Musical rattles
Function:
5.4 Secular and Religious Musical Instruments
Accession date:
1908
Context of use:
Rattle for singing.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
length 20.5 centimeters and circumference 29 centimeters