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A rough hewn handle with a 3" section of cow's horn capped with a wood disc with seeds or beads inside to rattle when shook.
rattles
horn (animal material)
wood (plant material)
lip-vibrated aerophones with conical bore: with valves
Wood
Horn
Carved
Rattle
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
10 1/4 x 2 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1992.448
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