Sistrum, wood; round handle, square body with rectangular opening; two rows of brass disks floating on nail axles, driven across opening; L 26.4 cm X W 2.7 cm, Dia of brass disks 5.6 cm
Donor:
Mary S. Johnson
Collection place:
Sonora, Mexico
Verbatim coll. place:
Mexico; Sonora, near Chucarit; Mayo or Yaqui
Culture or time period:
Mayo
Collector:
Ralph L. Beals
Collection date:
1931
Materials:
Brass (alloy) and Wood (plant material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Sistra
Function:
5.4 Secular and Religious Musical Instruments
Accession date:
1931
Context of use:
Musical instrument either carried in right hand and beaten against palm of left hand in complicated rhythm or stuck in belt in back, handle down
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Dimensions:
length 26.4 centimeters and width 2.7 centimeters
Comment:
H-3-4
Loans:
S1966-1967 #2: Upward Bound/Lawrence Crouchett (July 14, 1966–July 14, 1966), S1967-1968 #58: KQED Television (November 28, 1967–November 30, 1967), S1974-1975 #4: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (July 19, 1974–February 7, 1975), S1974-1975 #67: Civic Arts Center (Walnut Creek) (February 5, 1975–May 7, 1975), S1977-1978 #2: Music Library (UC Berkeley) (July 27, 1977–October 6, 1977), S1994-1995 #9b: SFO Museum (May 5, 1995–June 12, 1995), and S2010-2011 #8: SFO Museum (June 1, 2011–May 22, 2012)