Rattle

Museum number:
1-21058
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.100AW
Description:
Small cocoon rattle from which feathers have disappeared leaving only the shafts. Made with a cluster of cocoons from the silk moth Antheraea polyphemus, Cramer, attached to stick by twine.
Donor:
H. R. Noack
Collection place:
Hedricks Ranch, Plumas County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Plumas; Hedricks Ranch
Culture or time period:
Maidu
Collector:
H. R. Noack
Collection date:
ca. 1892
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Musical rattles
Function:
5.4 Secular and Religious Musical Instruments
Accession date:
August 1917
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
length 22.5 centimeters
Comment:
Remarks: cf. 1-2403.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Rattle, accession number 1-21058, described as Small cocoon rattle from which feathers have disappeared leaving only the shafts. Made with a cluster of cocoons from the silk moth Antheraea polyphemus, Cramer, attached to stick by twine.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Rattle, accession number 1-21058, described as Small cocoon rattle from which feathers have disappeared leaving only the shafts. Made with a cluster of cocoons from the silk moth Antheraea polyphemus, Cramer, attached to stick by twine.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Rattle, accession number 1-21058, described as Small cocoon rattle from which feathers have disappeared leaving only the shafts. Made with a cluster of cocoons from the silk moth Antheraea polyphemus, Cramer, attached to stick by twine.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Rattle, accession number 1-21058, described as Small cocoon rattle from which feathers have disappeared leaving only the shafts. Made with a cluster of cocoons from the silk moth Antheraea polyphemus, Cramer, attached to stick by twine.

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