Rattle, Medicine, Carved

American Museum of Natural History

16.1/618

EL OJO DEL TOTEM: ARTE Y CULTURA DE LOS INDIOS DEL NOROESTE DE AMERICA. EXHIBITION CATALOG, 1988, Publisher: THE COMISION NACIONAL QUINTO CENTENARIO VOICES OF THE ANCESTORS: MUSIC IN THE LIFE OF THE NORTHWEST COAST INDIANS. EXHIBITION CATALOG, 1986, Publisher: THE BRUCE MUSEUM

  • Exhibitions

    ART AND CULTURE OF THE NORTHWEST COAST INDIANS (COMISION NACIONAL QUINTO CENTENARIO, MADRID, SPAIN, 1988) VOICES OF THE ANCESTORS: MUSIC IN THE LIFE OF NWC INDIANS (BRUCE MUSEUM, GREENWICH, CT, USA, 1988)


  • Type of Item rattle
  • Culture Kitikshan
  • Material wood, pigment, hide, cloth
  • Measurements length 26.0 cm, width 14.0 cm, height 13.0 cm (overall)

  • Received from George T. Emmons

  • Made in Upper Skeena River


  • Subject REPRESENTS OWL ON ONE SIDE, FROG ON THE OTHER.