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  • Rattle, Copper, wood, tanned leather, abalone shell, and horn, Tlingit, Native American

Rattle

#9808

ca. 1890

Copper, wood, tanned leather, abalone shell, and horn

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Shaped within a hollowed wood form, the double sides of this rattle were joined together with copper rivets and designed to emulate traditional rattles made of wood. During the late 1890s Klondike Gold Rush in Skagway, Alaska, a cottage industry grew to serve travelers interested in carvings and metalwork made by Indigenous Alaskans. Native coppersmiths produced masks, daggers, and rattles such as this one.

9808: Rattle, Tlingit Artist

Additional Information

Mittarfiit
10 × 5 1/2 × 3 1/2 in. (25.4 × 14 × 8.9 cm)
Akissat
The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection of Native American Art, Gift of Charles and Valerie Diker, 2021
Ilanngussaq Nummer
2021.434.25

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