[Restricted Object] Turtle Shell Rattle
Seminole Tribe of Florida
Southeast
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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