BICPC ยท ETH.TAN.29

Rattle

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Description

This instrument was collected in the field by Percy Horace Gordon Powell-Cotton in 1939, and is associated with a Wasagara tribe from Kilosa, Tanganyika Territory. It is a child's toy made from a long stalk of bamboo to which are attached a metal sardine tin containing nails and other rattling objects (now missing). The ends of the stalk have some kind of spindle mechanism made with wooden bobbins and a string that runs along the stalk.

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