rattle
- Museum number
- Af1892,0714.24
- Description
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Rattle made of a cane framework between two covers formed of a number of thick corn stems tied side by side, enclosing a number of black spherical seeds.
- Production date
- 1891 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 21.50 centimetres
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Width: 25.40 centimetres
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Depth: 1.80 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Slip records: "Chibi's country, Mashona".
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- good
- Acquisition date
- 1892
- Acquisition notes
- Af1892,0714.1 to 193 were given by James Theodore Bent. It is a large ethnographical collection made by him and his wife among the Mashona (Shona) in Mashonaland (in northern Zimbabwe) which they had visited in 1891.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1892,0714.24