Rattle

97-84-2336

From: United States of America | Oklahoma | Near Cache Creek

Curatorial Section: American

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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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