Rattle
45-15-1494
From: United States of America | Montana
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 45-15-1494 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Piegan | Blackfeet |
| Provenience | United States of America | Montana |
| Culture Area | Great Plains Culture Area |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Rawhide | Bead | Metal | Skin | Feather |
| Description | Rawhide rattle, the handle wrapped with small white, yellow, dark blue, and green beads. The body a flattened sphere, blue on one side, red on the other. From this hangs a brass bell, a pendant of sheep skin with a bead top, 2 feathers, and a wide brown ribbon. Sheep skin carrying loop. |
| Length | 62 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from Mrs. Owen Stephens, 1945 |
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