Rattle
date: label: Accession Date
content: 3 Oct 1902
label: Collection Date
content: 1902
name: label: Collector
content: Frank Russell
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "SISTRUM-LIKE RATTLE CONSISTING OF CAPS OF OYSTER CANES SET IN WIRES IN A WOODEN HANDLE. COLL. IN 1902. THE PIMA USED THE SISTRUM RATTLE IN THEIR NAVITCO CEREMONIES. NAVITCO, A SPIRIT WHO, ACCORDING TO LEGEND, HAD INTRODUCED THE CULTIVATION OF GOURDS TO THEM, WAS HONORED EVERY EIGHT YEARS, OR, IF CROPS WERE ESPECIALLY GOOD, EVERY FOUR YEARS. BUT NAVITCO WAS ALSO THOUGHT TO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR SEVERAL AILMENTS - SWELLING OF THE KNEES AND INFLAMMATION OF THE EYES. CURING CEREMONIES FOR THE AFFLICTED WERE LED BY MASKED MEDICINE MEN ACCOMPANIED BY THE SISTRUM. ALTHOUGH USED AND COLLECTED IN A PIMA VILLAGE, THIS INSTRUMENT WAS NOT NATIVE TO THE PIMA. IT WAS PROBABLY ACQUIRED THROUGH TRADE FROM THE YAQUI, WHO HAD ADOPTED BOTH THE DISK SISTRUM AND THE VIOLIN FROM THE SPANISH. LOANED TO THE DIVISION OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS 9/30/1977. LOAN RETURNED 11/14/1977. LOANED TO RENWICK 9/3/1981. RETURNED 8/1983." ILLUS. IN FIG. 82, P. 168 OF B.A.E. 26TH ANNUAL REPORT AND DESCRIBED ON THE SAME PAGE. IT IS IDENTIFIED AS HAVING BEEN "SECURED AT THE VILLAGE OF PE'-EPTCILT."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Sacaton, Gila River Reservation, Arizona, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Pima (Akimel O'odham; Akimel O'otham)
label: Culture
content: Yaqui (Yoeme) (?)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 039990
label: USNM Number
content: E218066-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Rattle