rattle
- Museum number
- Am1949,22.111
- Description
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Shaman's rattle in the form of an oystercatcher (?) surmounted by the head of a mountain goat, with a frog, a shaman and a witch, carved of wood, with ermine fur attached.
- Production date
- 1949 (before)
- Dimensions
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Height: 9 centimetres
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Length: 35 centimetres
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Width: 13 centimetres
- Curator's comments
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see JCH King `First Peoples, First Contacts' British Museum Press 1999.
Register 1949:
North West Coast.
Oldman Collection.
See ETH DOC 1307.
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The shaman is shown binding and torturing a witch in a shamanic battle. There is a creature being expelled from the witch's mouth - possilbly a malign helper-spirit.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1985 May-Jun, Museum of Mankind; Festival of Native American Artists-The Living Tradition
1999-2021 25 Jun-21 July, BM Room 26; Gallery of North America, Case: "The Northwest Coast of America"
- Acquisition date
- 1949
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am1949,22.111