Rattle
97-84-2336
From: United States of America | Oklahoma | Near Cache Creek
Curatorial Section: American
Object Number | 97-84-2336 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Comanche |
Provenience | United States of America | Oklahoma | Near Cache Creek |
Culture Area | Great Plains Culture Area |
Section | American |
Materials | Gourd | Bead | Wood | Skin | Metal | Horsehair |
Technique | Etched |
Iconography | Sun | Moon | Thunderbird | Eagle |
Description | Gourd with finely etched and painted figures of sun, moon, "thunderbird" and American eagle. Buckskin-covered handle with sparsely beaded ball end and long buckskin fringe. Red horsehair plume. |
Length | 36 cm |
Width | 10 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1997 |
Other Number | L-84-2336 - Old Museum Number | 16724 - ANSP Number | I 1554 - Gottschall Number |
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