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Object Number
08-4-10/72802
Display Title
Dance rattle with horsehair tassel
Descriptions
Object Description
Dance rattle with horsehair tassel
Inventory Description
Rattle, skin wrapped gourd?, pebbles or seeds inside, long handle, hide wrapped, painted red bands, fringed, horsehair attached at base, feathers
Classification
- Unclassified
Department
Ethnographic
Culture
- Cheyenne
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
/
United States
Materials
Hide Feather Horsehair Seed? Pigment
Dimensions
Overall: 79 x 9 x 11 cm (31 1/8 x 3 9/16 x 4 5/16 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
72802
Provenance
Collector
Grace A. Nicholson
(?)
Donor
Mr. Lewis Hobart Farlow
(June, 1908)
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