<i>Güiro</i> Pick
date: label: Date made
content: 20th century
notes: label: Description
content: This <i>güiro</i> pick is in the shape of a <i>cuatro</i>, the national string instrument of Puerto Rico. Both the <i>güiro</i> and <i>cuatro</i> feature prominently in the instrumentation of traditional Puerto Rican genres like the <i>seis</i> and <i>plena</i>.
label: Description (Spanish)
content: Este puyero de güiro tiene la forma de un cuatro, el instrumento nacional de cuerdas de Puerto Rico. Tanto el güiro como el cuatro ocupan un lugar prominente en la instrumentación de los géneros tradicionales puertorriqueños, tales como el seis y la plena.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: Puerto Rico
title: label: Title (Spanish)
content: Puyero de Güiro
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content: Home and Community Life: Ethnic
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Cultures & Communities
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content: Vidal
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Teodoro Vidal
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1997.0097.1094
label: accession number
content: 1997.0097
label: catalog number
content: 1997.0097.1094
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pick, puyero de güiro
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: shell (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 25.1 cm x 8.8 cm x 2 cm; 9 7/8 in x 3 7/16 in x 13/16 in