Rattle
- Museum number:
- 2-15610
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21020015610
- Accession number:
- Acc.708
- Description:
- Dance breast rattle of baleen with 3 bone rings and 15 tapered cylindrical bone "pins" tied on.
- Donor:
- W. Barclay Stephens
- Collection place:
- Alaska
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Alaska
- Culture or time period:
- Alaskan Eskimo
- Collector:
- Carleton H. Clark
- Collection date:
- 1900
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Musical rattles
- Accession date:
- 1936
- Context of use:
- According to Ronald W. Senungetuk, this is a "conductors baton during ceremonies.
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Dimensions:
- width 33.5 centimeters
- Loans:
- S1973-1974 #65: Oakland Museum of California (March 8, 1974–April 24, 1974)
- Legacy documentation:
-