Cocoon rattle

Museum number:
1-2324
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010002324
Alternate number:
908 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.86, Acc.94, and Acc.97
Description:
Cocoon rattle, 3 cocoons of the silk moth Antheraea polyphemus, Cramer, attached to stick by twine.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Mooretown, Butte County, California
Culture or time period:
Maidu
Collector:
Alfred L. Kroeber and Roland Burrage Dixon
Collection date:
July 1903
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Rattles (indirectly struck idiophones)
Function:
5.4 Secular and Religious Musical Instruments
Accession date:
1903
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
length 30.3 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Cocoon rattle, accession number 1-2324, described as Cocoon rattle, 3 cocoons of the silk moth Antheraea polyphemus, Cramer, attached to stick by twine.Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Cocoon rattle, accession number 1-2324, described as Cocoon rattle, 3 cocoons of the silk moth Antheraea polyphemus, Cramer, attached to stick by twine.Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Cocoon rattle, accession number 1-2324, described as Cocoon rattle, 3 cocoons of the silk moth Antheraea polyphemus, Cramer, attached to stick by twine.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cocoon rattle, accession number 1-2324, described as Cocoon rattle, 3 cocoons of the silk moth Antheraea polyphemus, Cramer, attached to stick by twine.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cocoon rattle, accession number 1-2324, described as Cocoon rattle, 3 cocoons of the silk moth Antheraea polyphemus, Cramer, attached to stick by twine.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cocoon rattle, accession number 1-2324, described as Cocoon rattle, 3 cocoons of the silk moth Antheraea polyphemus, Cramer, attached to stick by twine.

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