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Dance rattle

This is a dance rattle made with silk moth cocoons filled with small seeds, and strung together with cord of vegetable fibers. Rather than being used as a belt, the long strip is usually looped around the ankles several times.

  • Culture:Bushmen
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  • Hornbostel-Sachs category:112.111 Strung rattles
  • Repository:Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum
  • Measurements:Length: 2000mm; Width: 35mm