[Restricted Object] Turtle Shell Rattle

Seminole Tribe of Florida
Southeast

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early 20th century

Turtle Shell, leather, and possibly seeds

Overall: 2 3/4 × 3 15/16 × 7 5/8 in. (7 × 10 × 19.3 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Glover Street Hastings III

181.2.26056

Geography

Place Made: Fort Lauderdale, United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Musical Instrument

Research Area

Native American

Native American: Southeast

Not on view

Course History

NAS 10, ANTH 4, Peoples and Cultures of Native North America, Sergei Kan, Spring 2012

NAS 10, ANTH 4, Peoples and Cultures of Native North America, Sergei Kan, Winter 2013

NAS 10, ANTH 4, Peoples and Cultures of Native North America, Sergei Kan, Winter 2015

NAS 10, ANTH 4, Peoples and Cultures of Native North America, Sergei Kan, Winter 2015

Provenance

Collected by Glover Street Hastings III, West Newton, Massachusetts and Bridgeton, Maine, 1920's-1930's; bequeathed to his daughter, Carlena Hastings Redfield (1888-1981), 1949; bequeathed to present collection [under the terms of her father's will], 1981.

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