Musical-Instrument (Guira)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 24 Jul 1924
name: label: Collector
content: Miss Emily S. Cook
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Gourd with parallel grooves on one side. Piece of wire is attached by string to top & rubbed over grooves to make sound."
label: Notes
content: The güiro (or güícharo in Puerto Rico) is a Latin American percussion instrument/idiophone consisting of an open-ended (or with openings), hollow gourd with parallel notches cut in one side. It is played by rubbing a stick or tines along the notches to produce a ratchet sound. The güiro is commonly used in Puerto Rican, Cuban and other forms of Latin American music.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 21 Aug 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Puerto Rico, United States, Caribbean
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 083522
label: USNM Number
content: E326777-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Rasp