Rattle
date: label: Accession Date
content: 15 Feb 1896
name: label: Collector
content: Mr. James Mooney
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN BULLETIN 136, USNM, PL. 8-H, P. 121. GOURD HAS MAN, BIRD, STAR?, DESIGNS SCRATCHED AND PAINTED. HANDLE COVERED WITH SKIN AND BEADS. TUFT OF HORSEHAIR, FRINGE. INVENTORIED 1978. 175626 LOANED TO RENWICK 9/3/81. RETURNED 1983. PEYOTE-RITE GOURD RATTLE, CA. 1880-95. SOUTHERN ARAPAHO INDIANS; OKLAHOMA GOURD, GREEN, WHITE, RED, BLUE, AND ORANGE GLASS BEADS; HORSEHAIR TUFT; RAWHIDE. 30 X 4 1/2 (76.2 X 11.4) NMNH 175626. DECORATED GOURD RATTLES ARE USED BY PLAINS INDIANS IN THE RITES OF THE PEYOTE RELIGION. THE BEADS AND STAR DESIGNS ON THIS RATTLE REPRESENT HALLUCINATORY IMAGES SEEN WITH THE HELP OF PEYOTE. THE FIGURE ON THE GOURD HOLDS A PEYOTE FAN. AT THE TIME THAT THIS RATTLE WAS COLLECTED, ARAPAHO PEYOTE MEETINGS CONSISTED OF NIGHTLONG FIRESIDE SINGING. AFTER CHEWING PEYOTE, PARTICIPANTS TOOK TURNS SINGING THROUGH THE NIGHT, ACCOMPANYING THEMSELVES WITH GOURD RATTLES. AT DAWN THEY PUT ASIDE THE PARAPHERNALIA OF THE PEYOTE RITE AND TOOK FOOD. DURING THE DAY THE PARTICIPANTS RESTED IN THE SHADE, SOME OCCASIONALLY SINGING TO THEMSELVES WITH THEIR RATTLES."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Indian Territory, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Arapaho (Inunaina, Hinono'ei)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 030341
label: USNM Number
content: E175626-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Rattle