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Object Number 09-30-30/75176
Display Title Dance rattles
Descriptions
Inventory Description Gourd rattles, wooden handle, spiked feather ornament, string attached.
Classification
  • Percussion
  • Raw Material
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Atorai
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
South America / Guyana
South America / British Guiana
Dimensions Overall: 69 x 10 x 10 cm (27 3/16 x 3 15/16 x 3 15/16 in.)
Quantity 4
Label on object 75176
Provenance
Collector Rev. John W. Ogilvie (1908 - 1909)
Intermediary Katherine Mayo (1909)

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