Carved wooden instrument with a series of evenly carved ridges protruding outward, running along most of the front length of the piece. A hole is bored through the bottom as a handle. Thick decorative lines are carved into the sides of the instrument. The playing stick (part b) is a short piece of bamboo cut into strips on the bottom. The top of the instrument is carved as the head of a man, with beard and mustache, protruding nose, lined cheeks, carved eyes and heavy, wrinkled brows. His mouth has a bored hole at centre that holds a small wooden pipe (part c) with carved linear designs.

• History Of Use

  A Latin-American percussion instrument (apparently adapted from a pre-Columbian instrument). Traditionally, the reco-reco (also called the raspador) is made from a sawtooth notched body of bamboo or wood, and played with a stick rubbed along the notches to produce a ratchet-like sound.

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• Type of Item musical instrument
• Culture Portuguese
• Material wood, bamboo grass
• Measurements height 68.5 cm, width 13.0 cm, depth 9.2 cm (part a) height 31.0 cm, diameter 2.5 cm (part b) height 10.5 cm, width 3.0 cm, depth 4.0 cm (part c)

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• Creator Francisco de Assis Ferreira Araujo
• Field Collector Anthony A. Shelton
• Previous Owner Anthony A. Shelton
• Received from Museum of Anthropology Exhibitions Budget, Anthony A. Shelton

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• Made in Braga
• Collected in Portugal

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• Creation Date during 2011
• Collection Date between 2011 and 2012
• Ownership Date before September 17, 2012
• Acquisition Date on September 17, 2012

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• Condition good
• Accession Number 2956/0302 a-c