Rattle
79-4-4B
From: Ghana | Tambi
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | 79-4-4B |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Nafana |
| Provenience | Ghana | Tambi |
| Culture Area | Southern Africa |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Grass | Stone |
| Description | Four identrical grass anklet rattles. The wide-bladed grass has been woven so that it forms a row of rough "pyramid" shaped which are hollow and filled with tiny (mud?) pellets. Vegetable strips fashioned to produce about 14 points containing small stones. |
| Height | 7.3 cm |
| Length | 20.5 cm |
| Width | 21 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from Dred Williams, 1979 |
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