Object class: Musical instruments / Media available: legacy documentation / Function: 5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Gong, accession number 5-15397, described as Slit gong, wood, hand carved from solid tree limb, round, well-patinated; finial/stylized carved human head at top; lower two thirds hollowed out. Length 36.9 cm. Diameter (at base) 8.5 cm. Used by a diviner to announce his entry into a village.

Hearst Museum object titled Rattle, accession number 1-10004, described as Made with 2 smoke-blackened sticks, to which are attached smoke-blackened turkey feathers and 6 cocoons of the silk moth Antheraea polyphemus. Used as a rattle in dances. Described by Barrett in 1906 as being "very old.

Hearst Museum object titled Rattle, accession number 5-2622, described as Hand rattle; length of wood with coiled root splits forming hollow ball on each end; each rattle container bean and corn; overall length 13 inches.

Hearst Museum object titled Rattles, accession number 5-4334a,b, described as Conical rattles (Gofshgotshe'e) of twined cordage; stitched to base of round section of calabash; disconnected pair; height each circa 18 cm. Made and used by women and girls for dances at festivals, hudok, funerals, etc. to give the dancers their cadence; held in hands or fastened below knee. Collected 8/2/1964.