Dance Rattle Gourd
date: label: Accession Date
content: 14 Feb 1895
name: label: Collector
content: William J. McGee
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "MADE FROM A SMALL DESERT GOURD, ENLARGED BY CULTIVATION. A CIRCLE 1 1/4" IN DIAMETER HAS BEEN REMOVED FROM AROUND THE STEM, AND A CIRCULAR DISK, SLIGHTLY LARGER THAN THE OPENING, CEMENTED OVER THE HOLE WITH MESQUITE GUM. A SHORT HANDLE OF SEHUARA CACTUS WOOD IS THRUST THROUGH THE HOLE CUT IN THE CEMENTED TOP PLATE AND THE BOTTOM OF THE GOURD. THE RATTLES ARE A FEW SMALL PEBBLES. THE RATTLE IS USED IN FEASTS AND CEREMONIAL DANCES, BEING CARRIED IN THE HAND OF THE DANCERS. IT IS SHAKEN WITH A CIRCULAR MOTION OF THE FOREARM, WHICH CAUSES THE PEBBLES TO ROTATE INSIDE THE SHELL. EXCELLENT TIME IS KEPT TO THE SHUFFLING OF THE FEET OF THE DANCER AND TO THE DRUM AND FLAGEOLET PLAYERS."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, San Xavier Reservation / Pima County, Arizona, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Papago (Tohono O'odham)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 029025
label: USNM Number
content: E174454-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Rattle