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Title	Rattle
Artist	Artist Unknown (Haida)
Date	19th-20th century
Institution	Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Location	On view at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, G259

Medium:

Sculpture | Cedarwood, leather, abalone, haliotis shell, pigment

Size:

12 1/2 x 3 3/4 in. (31.8 x 9.5 cm)

Creation Place:

North America, Canada, Northwest Coast region, British Columbia

Culture:

Haida, North America, Canada, Northwest Coast region, British Columbia

Style:

19th-20th century

Physical Description:

Chief's rattle; depicts the raven lengend a raven is shown with a human figure reclining on his back; the man holds a frog's tongue in his mouth in the act of sucking out a person which was believed to be helpful to shamans in their mystical rituals; the frog's body emerges from a hawk; the rounded underside of the raven's body is carved to represent a sparrow hawk; polychromed cedarwood sewn together with leather, inlaid abalone eyes in the raven

Credit:

Collection Minneapolis Institute of Arts; The Christina N. and Swan J. Turnblad Memorial Fund

Accession Number:

75.55

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Added to Site:

February 28, 2009