Clapper

Museum number:

1-236845

Permalink:

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Accession number:

Acc.216, Acc.217, Acc.218, Acc.220, and Acc.2802

Object count:

1

Description:

Split wooden stick. Wood of incense cedar.

Donor:

Mrs. George H. Crooks and Samuel A. Barrett

Collection place:

Sierra foothills, Sierra Nevada Mountain Range, California

Verbatim coll. place:

Collected in Ahwahnee

Culture or time period:

Eastern Miwok

Collector:

Mrs. W. M. Sell and Mr. W. M. Sell

Collection date:

1903-1905

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Clappers (percussion beaters)

Function:

5.4 Secular and Religious Musical Instruments

Accession date:

1906 and 1971

Context of use:

Used to beat time for song and dances.

Department:

Native California (archaeology and ethnology)

Dimensions:

length 49 centimeters

Legacy documentation: