Collection: Warnock

Item Number: WC8803015

Category: Rattle

Region: Plains

Tribe: Cheyenne

Period: 1800-1825 - ca. 1800

Materials: Buffalo rawhide; wood; sinew; native tanned buffalo hide; red and green seed beads.

Description: Rawhide rattle with incised designs of buffalo tracks and crescent moon on one side, a human figure holding a Pipe Bowls-Pipe Stems and lance on the other. Two small bags tied onto rattle.

Dimensions: Height 7 inches 17.8 cm; Width 2.5 inches 6.3 cm.

Provenance:

Alexander Gallery
Epic Fine Arts Co./Masco Corp.

Notes (click on note to open):

Drs. Ted J. Brasser 2006

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