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maracas

human history
  • Other Name

    hand rattles, cabaca

  • Description

    maracas, wooden handle with dark finish, coconut shell head (longitudinal? incisions), threaded beads on wire in grid formation covering outside of heads, beads are black, white and red

  • Place
    India
  • Accession Number
    1998.60.209
  • Accession Date
    10 Oct 1998
  • Other Id

    321 (Castle)

  • Department

    Applied Arts and Design

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