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Object Number
05-7-10/64799
Display Title
Clappers for dance
Descriptions
Object Description
Clappers for dance, possibly used to announce the eagle dance or nukil ceremony -"funeral" performed one year after death.
Inventory Description
Clappers, carved wood, long and flat, polychrome glass bead danglers,
Classification
- Percussion
Department
Ethnographic
Date
1905
Culture
- Mission
- Serrano
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
/
United States
/
California
Additional Geographic Terms
Serrano Mission
Southwest California
Materials
Wood, Glass
Dimensions
Overall: 51 x 3.7 x 1.4 cm (20 1/16 x 1 7/16 x 9/16 in.)
Quantity
2
Label on object
64799
Provenance
Collector
Grace A. Nicholson
(Unknown)
Donor
Mr. Lewis Hobart Farlow
(04/1905)
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