Rattle

Maker
Unknown Maker
Description
A rattle made of a small gourd with a cylindrical wooden handle. The gourd has four evenly spaced vertical rows of small holes and is dark brown in colour. The handle is decorated with an incised single line that snakes around and up the handle. There is a further band of diagonal lines around the base and around the top of the handle. The rattle is lightweight and contains seeds of some description.
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Maker
Media/Materials
Wooden gourd, wooden handle and seeds[?]
Production place
Tanzania
Collection
Tanzanian Collection/Ethnology
Department collection type
Ethnology
Credit line
Collection of Waikato Museum Te Whare Taonga o Waikato
Accession number
1975/81/16

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