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rattle

Rattle; made from gourd pierced with holes and filled with seeds, mounted on wooden handle; feathers dyed fuchsia glued onto handle around base of gourd and ends covered with foil; stick protrudes through gourd at opposite end from handle, decorated with fuchsia feathers wrapped in foil.

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