Consisting of a stick with carved heads at ends painted red, blue, and black; pendant puffin beaks; alder. Double wolf heads at one end; raven with frog in mouth at other; raven with frog in mouth refers to a myth where raven took frog in mouth and descended to depths of the sea, frog acting as lung for raven; double wolf is a Tlingit motif (fide Charles Brown).
Donor:
Sarah A. Wafer
Collection place:
Northwest Coast, United States
Verbatim coll. place:
; Northwest Coast
Culture or time period:
Tlingit
Collector:
Henry Wafer
Collection date:
1878-1880
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Musical rattles
Accession date:
August 23, 1922
Context of use:
Song rattle of women (fide Charles Brown).
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 31 centimeters
Loans:
S1945-1946 #4: Winfield Scott Wellington (March 11, 1946–October 28, 1955), S1952-1953 #2: California Palace of the Legion of Honor (dates unknown), S1967-1968 #52: Fine Arts Patrons of Newport Harbor (December 28, 1967–March 19, 1968), S1972-1973 #15: unknown borrower (October 20, 1972–March 30, 1973), S1976-1977 #28: Music Library (UC Berkeley) (November 19, 1976–May 9, 1977), and S1981-1982 #50: Heffernan Films (March 15, 1982–March 23, 1982)