Seed shell rattle

Made:: 1880-1920

Seed shell rattle
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Seed shell rattle, handle in the form of a bundle of twisted hide thongs shells split open and threaded fibre cord, Bangala region(?), Congolese, 1880-1920

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A658323

Materials:: hide, seed and fibre

Measurements:: length 240 mm
approx.: width 75 mm
approx.: depth 65 mm

type:: rattle

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Seed shell rattle

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