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Dance rattle
Object Number 05-7-10/64441
Display Title Dance rattle
Descriptions
Inventory Description Rattle, tapered leather with red 4 directional design, hair handle
Classification
  • Percussion
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Cheyenne
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States
Additional Geographic Terms Plains
Materials Leather, Horsehair, Leather, Glass
Dimensions Overall: 34 x 5 x 4 cm (13 3/8 x 1 15/16 x 1 9/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 05-7-10/64441
Provenance
Intermediary Miss Allcutt (?)
Donor Mr. Lewis Hobart Farlow (January, 1905)

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