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Object Number 95-20-10/48399.1
Display Title Ancient form of dance rattle
Descriptions
Object Description Ancient form of dance rattle; round puffin beak rattle. Used for musical accompaniment, these rattles are constructed from bark - wrapped twines arranged in 3 concentric circles, with a wooden cross piece. Puffin beak attached with cedar bark twine.
Inventory Description Fragments, bark and beak, belonging to rattle 95-20-10/48399
Classification
  • Percussion
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Tlingit?
  • Haida?
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
Dimensions Overall (estimation): 1 × 0.5 × 0.1 cm (3/8 × 3/16 × 1/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Provenance
Collector Roderick MacKenzie (?)
Donor American Antiquarian Society (1895)

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