Rattle

Museum number:
18-1492
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21180001492
Alternate number:
91 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.3562
Description:
Rattle. Wood, snakeskin cover on ends of drum shaped head, small metal loops with remnants of cotton string on sides; handle has a hole at end. length - 17.5 cm.; head, diam. - 4.4 cm. Collector states that specimen is "a vendor's rattle.
Donor:
Caroline Mytinger
Collection place:
Java, Indonesia
Verbatim coll. place:
Indonesia;; Java
Culture or time period:
Javanese
Collector:
Caroline Mytinger
Materials:
Cotton (textile), Metal, Snakeskin, and Wood (plant material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Musical rattles
Function:
5.4 Secular and Religious Musical Instruments
Accession date:
July 22, 1980
Context of use:
Collector states that specimen is "a vendor's rattle.
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
handle and head— diameter 4.4 centimeters and handle and head— length 17.5 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Rattle, accession number 18-1492, described as Rattle. Wood, snakeskin cover on ends of drum shaped head, small metal loops with remnants of cotton string on sides; handle has a hole at end. length - 17.5 cm.; head, diam. - 4.4 cm. Collector states that specimen is "a vendor's rattle.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Rattle, accession number 18-1492, described as Rattle. Wood, snakeskin cover on ends of drum shaped head, small metal loops with remnants of cotton string on sides; handle has a hole at end. length - 17.5 cm.; head, diam. - 4.4 cm. Collector states that specimen is "a vendor's rattle.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Rattle, accession number 18-1492, described as Rattle. Wood, snakeskin cover on ends of drum shaped head, small metal loops with remnants of cotton string on sides; handle has a hole at end. length - 17.5 cm.; head, diam. - 4.4 cm. Collector states that specimen is "a vendor's rattle.

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