Female shaman's rattle
- Made:
- 1890-1935 in Queen Charlotte Islands
Female shaman's rattle, numerous puffin beaks suspended from three concentric red cedar wood rings wound with cane which are secured by diametric wooden bar, normally come in pairs, Haida tribe, North West Coast Indian, Canadian, 1890-1925
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A175394
- Materials:
- wood, cane and beak, puffin
- type:
- rattle
- credit:
- Glendining