Turtle Rattle
date: label: Accession Date
content: 28 Aug 1992
label: Collection Date
content: 1986
name: label: Donor Name
content: Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden
notes: label: Notes
content: PROVENIENCE UNDOCUMENTED. IDENTIFICATION PROVIDED BY HMSG. TURTLE RATTLE HAS ADDITIONAL SUPPORT ALONG NECK FROM 3 WOODEN SLATS W/ ENDS INSERTED INTO SHELL. NECK IS THEN WRAPPED TIGHTLY W/ SKIN, SEWN W/ SYNTHETIC THREAD. HAS A SKIN LOOP. UNDERSIDE HAS BEEN CUT AROUND THE CIRCUMFERENCE (FOR REMOVAL OF INNARDS & INSERTION OF RATTLE DEVICES?) & SEWN BACK W/ HIDE. BACK SIDE HAS 2 HANDWRITTEN LABELS "84" AND "84 154/5." UNDERSIDE HAS ANOTHER HANDWRITTEN LABEL "154/5 S.4.73 S.276." CONDITION: DEBRIS FALL OUT WHEN OBJECT IS HANDLED. IROQUOIS ATTRIBUTION IS BY FELICIA PICKERING, MUSEUM SPECIALIST, DEPT. OF ANTHROPOLOGY, NMNH. ACCORDING TO THE HANDBOOK OF N. AM. INDIANS, VOL. 15, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1978, "TURTLE RATTLES ARE USED FOR FEATHER DANCE & BY FALSE FACE SOCIETY. THE TURTLE ALSO PLAYS A MAJOR PART IN HURON & IROQUOIS COSMOLOGY," (PAGES 318-319).
label: Record Last Modified
content: 20 Oct 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: United States (not certain) / Canada (not certain), North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Iroquois (Haudenosaunee)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 370312
label: USNM Number
content: E428124-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Rattle
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 52.5 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 22 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 10 cm