Rhythm Maker
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Jan 2019
name: label: Collector
content: Allen Davis
label: Donor Name
content: Allen Davis
notes: label: Notes
content: Rattle made from a bent twig and pieces of gourd. The joint is carved with tiny holes drilled into it. Six roundels of gourd are threaded through the shorter arm of the twig. The end has another piece of gourd tied through the end to keep the gourd roundels from falling off. Twig was covered with some shiny paint.
label: Notes
content: Donor's Notes: West Africa Mali/Burkina Faso? Crook rhythm maker--wood. Faint suggestion of a human figure. [Identified as Bamana by NMNH curator Mary Jo Arnoldi, who adds that it is used in Bamana boy's initiation into Ndomo society].
label: Record Last Modified
content: 16 Oct 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Mali, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Bamana (Bambara)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2078918
label: USNM Number
content: E435051-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Rattle
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 43 cm
label: Width
content: 23 cm
label: Height
content: 8 cm