Gourd Rattle
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1873
name: label: Collector
content: Jose C. Feledon
label: Donor Name
content: Prof William M. Gabb
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "MADE OF SMALL PEAR-SHAPED CALABASH TO WHICH IS LASHED A SHORT HANDLE MADE OF THE RIGHT FEMUR OF SOME RODENT, PROBABLY THE AGOUTI (DASYPROCTA AGOUTI). CONTAINS A FEW SEEDS OF THE "SHORT PLANT", OR CANNA. USED BY THE PRIESTS AS ACCOMPANIMENT TO THEIR SONGS. IT IS HELD UPRIGHT AND SOLEMNLY SHAKEN IN TIME WITH THE SONG UNTIL THE END OF THE STANZA, WHEN, AS A SIGNAL FOR THE CHORUS TO STRIKE IN, IT IS GIVEN A TWIRL, BY WHICH THE SEEDS ARE SHAKEN NOISILY WITHIN."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 15 Nov 2016
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: San Jose, Costa Rica, Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Talamanca
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 003009
label: USNM Number
content: E12644-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Rattle