Cocoon rattle, wood shaft with 10 silk moth cocoons on feather quills attached to wood shaft with commercial cotton string. Gravel or clam disc beads in cocoons. Ceanothus silk moth (Samia rubra, Behr or Hyalophora euryalus, Boisduval) cocoons; wood shaft probably (Holodiscus discolor) "Cream Bush".
Donor:
John Preston Stanley, Philip Mills Jones, and Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Haupt Ranch, Sonoma County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Sonoma; Haupt Ranch
Culture or time period:
Kashia
Collector:
Philip Mills Jones
Collection date:
July 9, 1901
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Musical rattles
Function:
5.4 Secular and Religious Musical Instruments
Accession date:
August 1901
Context of use:
Rattle used for sacred music in dance.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
length 1.6 meters
Comment:
Photo: "X" Published: BAE Bul. 78, Pl. 67d, Fig. 37c. Conservation: Wood shaft of rattle was cut by collector. Each piece was drilled and the two were dowelled and glued (Acorn's R9571 Poly Vinyl Acetate emulsion) together by G. Brown 7-31-75.