Dance Rattle
date: label: Accession Date
content: 7 May 1869
name: label: Collector
content: Col. Philip Figyelmessy
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "CONSISTS OF A SLENDER STICK; FROM NEAR THE UPPER END HANGS A LARGE NUMBER OF THE PODS OF SOME PLANT ATTACHED TO A PIECE OF SENNIT WHICH IS WRAPPED AROUND THE STICK. SHAKING THE STICK CAUSES THE DRY, HARD PODS TO STRIKE AGAINST EACH OTHER AND PRODUCE THE DESIRED NOISE." FROM CARD: "A BRAID MADE OF COTTON CORD, HALF AN INCH WIDE, IS CONSTRUCTED WITH PENDANT LOOPS, SIX IN. LONG FROM ONE EDGE, ABOUT 3/4 IN. APART. TO EACH LOOP IS HUNG A NUT SHELL BY A CORD ABOUT AN INCH LONG, THE BRAID IS CLOSELY WOUND AROUND A SLIM POLE, COMMENCING ABOUT A FOOTFROM THE UPPER END. FROM THE STYLE OF BRAID USED, POSSIBLY THIS IS FROM THE ARAWAKS SEE 4,369. E.H.H."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 20 Apr 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Guyana, South America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Arawak
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 001567
label: USNM Number
content: E8708-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Rattle
physicalDescription: label: Width - Object
content: 1.3 cm
label: Length - Object
content: 15 cm