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Description

Painted wood rattle held together with metal nails and having strands of commercial black wool representing hair while a handle forms the lower jaw. The white face has circular black eyes outlined by a tapering oval surrounded by a green area with black brows above outlined by orange-red and extending downward to a sideways double u form at either outer side of the eyes. The nostrils are orange-red and there are orange-red dashes across the cheeks. The open, downward turned, orange-red mouth shows white teeth with curved line that has perpendicular lines across it. At either side of the mouth, there is a pair of orange-red u forms within a black one side-by-side. Vertical orange-red dashes are at either sides of the handle. The back of the head is painted black with an orange-red n form that has orange-red dashes within its white space.

History Of Use

Were carried and shaken by Hamats!a attendants, solalhala, to calm Hamats!a dancer. (D. Roberts, J. Dick, A. Alfred, 1966)

Iconographic Meaning

Depicts a decapitated head. (D. Roberts, A. Alfred 1966).

Narrative

Made by Dick Price for James Knox (D. Roberts, 1966).

Cultural Context

ceremonial

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