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Object Number 99-12-30/53225
Display Title Medicine man's rattle (marakka)
Descriptions
Inventory Description Percussion instrument, gourd with sound hole on a wooden stick
Classification
  • Percussion
Department Ethnographic
Date before 1899
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
South America / British Guiana
South America / Guyana
Materials Gourd, Wood
Dimensions Overall: 58 x 15.5 x 16 cm (22 13/16 x 6 1/8 x 6 5/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 53225
Credit Line Gift of the Heirs of David Kimball, 1899
Provenance
Provenance Boston Museum
Donor David P. Kimball
Donor Augusta K. Horton
Donor L. Cushing Kimball

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