Navajo | Hopi Gourd Rattle

Namemusical instrument

DateUnknown

Mediumgourd, paint, wood, cord

Dimensions14 1/4 × 8 1/2 × 4 3/16 in. (36.2 × 21.6 × 10.6 cm)

Credit LineBequest of Dorothy Zama May

CultureNavajo | Hopi

Object numberA1996-1-187

ClassificationsMay Collection

DescriptionHand carved and painted; circular, mostly flattened gourd, with concave center on each side of smooth round wood handle, wider at bottom, tapered at top, with wood peg inserted through hole at top of handle and hole at bottom to insert cord; white wood, and cord, blue-green ground with black and white painted decorations; design consists of stylized windmill with black vanes with white bar at top and white center, and black stripe around circumference with 2 sets of two cross bars and large "X" separating them.

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