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Rattle

Gold alloy, Early Quimbaya or Zenú

Rights: Public Domain

The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection Bequest of Nelson A. Rockefeller 1979

Metal-Musical Instruments Musical Instruments

Colombia, middle Cauca Valley and Central Cordillera or Caribbean Lowlands, Early Quimbaya or Zenú

Title: Rattle

Description:

Gold alloy, Early Quimbaya or Zenú.

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"Another musical instrument frequently used by the swamps is the dance rattle (hg. 173). More primitive instruments can hardly be imagined, because it consists only of a pump shell...