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Dance rattle

Description according to historical index card: Rattle painted black and red. According to Jacobsen: dancing rattle for the accompanying Hametzen, first shaken strongly to stimulate the Hametzen, later quietly to calm them down. "Jäthan"

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Kwakiutl (Kwakwaka'wakw)
Object type
musical instruments
Dimensions
Weight: 0,19 kg
Height: 23 cm
Width: 11 cm
Depth: 11 cm
Material/Technique
Wood
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
IV A 1363

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    where
    North America (Northwest Coast)
    British Columbia
    who
    Kwakiutl (Kwakwaka'wakw)
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Ethnology

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Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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