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Description

Brown wood clapper painted with face designs carved on both sides. One face has black circle in circle eyes with a vertical white line for the pupils and black brows above. The open oval mouth shows eight white teeth. Above the mouth, there is a wide, truncated, black triangular-like shape with white dots. On top, there is a white spotted green frog that has its front right leg in between the face's eyes, its back right leg just along the outer circle of the face's eye, its back left leg in the middle of the face's wide truncated, black triangular-like shape, and its front left leg just above the face's cheek. Along the top and the bottom of the face, there is a pair of wide, red split u's. The other face is similar but instead it has a wide, truncated, white triangular-like shape with black dots and black teeth with no frog on top.

History Of Use

Used by Mitlha dancer.

Cultural Context

ceremonial

Narrative

Said to have been collected by B. H. Weare, c. 1900.

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