Rattle
date: label: Accession Date
content: 7 May 1869
name: label: Collector
content: Col. Philip Figyelmessy
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "In all of the above the hoop is double. One narrow hoop placed above another and covered with a cotton string passed around both. A figure 8 form at intervals of 1/4 in. Or less. A short loop of cotton cord is placed around the lower hoop. To this cord are attached pendants, the blytra (wing coters) of the Euchrona Gigantea (Lina). A large beetle common in tropical South America. The wing covers are pierced for the loop at their anterior ends. The ends of the hoops are lashed together after they are wound with cord both pieces are in pairs and both called bracelets. Herbert Spencer in Des. Soc. No. 6, p1. 56, enumerates as among the musical instruments of the Warens, "Bracelets and Anklets of seeds and Beetle wings. Wood in his. Nat. His. of Man, vol. 2, p. 629 and 30. Illustrates and describes a rattle having 3 hoops placed one above the other and suspended from a central card, each hoop having pendants of beetle wing covers." From card: "Bracelets (2)-bands, 1/4 inch in width, wrapped with white cord and ornamented with pendants of iridescent wing cases of Brazilian beetles (Buprestis). Indians of British Guiana. Diameters, 2 1/4 to 3 3/4 ins. Length of wings, 2 ins. British Guiana, 1868. Collected by P. Figyelmesey, U.S. Consul.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 20 Apr 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Georgetown, Demerara, Guyana, South America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 001567
label: USNM Number
content: E8759-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Rattle
physicalDescription: label: Minimum Diameter - Object
content: 5.71 cm
label: Maximum Diameter - Object
content: 9.53 cm