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Object Number
2000.29.63.1
Display Title
Currency, dance rattle
Descriptions
Object Description
Currency, dance rattle; flat metal bar with bells at ends, middle; two bells detached
Inventory Description
Currency, dance rattle, central bar, perforated, twelve bells attached
Classification
- Exchange medium
Department
Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa
/
Nigeria
Materials
Iron
Dimensions
Overall: 42 x 5 x 0.75 cm (16 9/16 x 1 15/16 x 5/16 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
2000.29.63.1
Credit Line
Gift of Mark S. Rapoport, MD and Jane Hughes
Provenance
Collector
Mark S. Rapoport
(12/10/00)
Donor
Jane Hughes
(12/10/2000)
Donor
Mark S. Rapoport
(12/10/00)
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PrimaryMedia | Object Number | Title | Classification | Geography/Provenience | SHARE |
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| 2000.29.63.3 | Single bell from dance rattle, currency |
Exchange medium
|
Nigeria
| |
| 2000.29.106 | Currency, bell anklet |
Exchange medium
|
Liberia
| |
| 2000.29.60 | Currency, gong |
Musical
|
Nigeria
| |
| 2000.29.63.2 | Single bell from dance rattle, currency |
Percussion
|
Nigeria
| |
| 2000.29.53 | Currency, bar with coiled ends |
Exchange medium
|
Cameroon
| |
| 2000.29.28 | Snake currency |
Exchange medium
|
Burkina Faso
| |
| 2000.29.59 | Currency, unknown form |
Exchange medium
|
Africa
| |
| 39-30-10/18241 | Dance rattle made from a tin can wrapped with beadwork, feather, bell, & ribbon |
Unclassified
|
United States
| |
| 2000.29.39 | "Tajere" currency |
Exchange medium
|
Nigeria
Cameroon | |
| 2000.29.12 | Currency, throwing knife |
Exchange medium
|
Gabon
| |
| 2000.29.35 | Currency, water heater |
Exchange medium
|
Nigeria
| |
| 2002.1.351 | Metal - hammered fragment, "T" shape, fragment of Liberian currency bar? |
Exchange medium
|
Liberia
|