rattle

Classification: 1 Idiophones / 11 Struck idiophones / 112 Indirectly struck idiophones / 112.1 Shaken idiophones or rattles
Date: 20th c.
Region: Lesser Poland
Country: Poland
Owner: The State Ethnographic Museum in Warsaw
Inventory number: PME 34113
Description: vessel made from small, crossed pieces of wood, filled with small stones
Decoration: handle with a pearl-shaped end and a truncated pyramid on top; decorated with crossing cuts
Measurements: 240 mm
Materials: wood, gravel
Performance practice: a music tool, formerly used to make the so-called ritual noise during folk Koledari ceremonies, later a toy
Catalog card by: Teresa Lewińska / Zbigniew J. Przerembski


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