Rattle fragment

Museum number:
5-16754a-s
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
516754
Accession number:
Acc.4739
Description:
19 fragments of palm frond and seed rattles. each segment has either a loop or a tie end attached to one end of the fragment. each rattle segment is made from folded palm frond strips which form small pyramids in which seeds are contained. segments are strung on twine which forms the ties.
Donor:
Berta Bascom
Collection place:
Nigeria
Verbatim coll. place:
West Africa; Nigeria; Ibo
Culture or time period:
Igbo
Collector:
Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Materials:
Palm
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Musical rattles
Function:
5.4 Secular and Religious Musical Instruments
Accession date:
June 23, 2004
Context of use:
ceremonial
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
width 2 centimeters, length 51 centimeters, minimum length— length 13 centimeters, and height 2.5 centimeters
Comment:
Conflict in culture; provenience states object is 'Ibo', Attributed Culture states it is 'Yoruba'
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Rattle fragment, accession number 5-16754a-s, described as 19 fragments of palm frond and seed rattles. each segment has either a loop or a tie end attached to one end of the fragment. each rattle segment is made from folded palm frond strips which form small pyramids in which seeds are contained. segments are strung on twine which forms the ties.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Rattle fragment, accession number 5-16754a-s, described as 19 fragments of palm frond and seed rattles. each segment has either a loop or a tie end attached to one end of the fragment. each rattle segment is made from folded palm frond strips which form small pyramids in which seeds are contained. segments are strung on twine which forms the ties.

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