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Object Number
46-6-20/15142
Display Title
6' string of cocoons filled with pebbles, used ceremonially as leg shakers
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Percussion, string, coccons filled w/ pebbles, posslible ceremonial leg shakers,
Classification
- Percussion
Department
Ethnographic
Culture
- Yaqui
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Central America
/
Mexico
/
Sonora
Materials
String, Cocoon
Dimensions
Overall: 194 x 6 x 3 cm (76 3/8 x 2 3/8 x 1 3/16 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
46-6-20/15142
Provenance
Collector
Mrs. Edward Tufts
(01/01/1929)
Owner
Miss. Lucy Warren Whipple
Donor
Donated by
Mrs. Harold C. Bales
(01/17/1946)
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