拍品 131
131
A RARE AMAZONIAN GOURD RATTLE, the gourd with four narrow slits, the woven cotton-covered finial sewn with orange and green feathers, wood handle, probably Calibi, Guyana/Surinam, cracked, 54cm. long; a rectangular basket and cover, woven with angular geometric designs in light and dark fibre, suspending feather tassels, the cover damaged, 22cm. wide; and a rectangular cotton panel sewn with bands of red and green feathers, dark blue woven cotton band to the top, 40cm. wide (3)

细节
A RARE AMAZONIAN GOURD RATTLE, the gourd with four narrow slits, the woven cotton-covered finial sewn with orange and green feathers, wood handle, probably Calibi, Guyana/Surinam, cracked, 54cm. long; a rectangular basket and cover, woven with angular geometric designs in light and dark fibre, suspending feather tassels, the cover damaged, 22cm. wide; and a rectangular cotton panel sewn with bands of red and green feathers, dark blue woven cotton band to the top, 40cm. wide (3)
来源
James T. Hooper, no.1708, for the rattle
出版
Phelps, 1976, plate 215, for the rattle

拍品专文

A label formerly attached to the rattle and now lost read: Sacred incantation instrument used by the priests over the sick in the Island of Demerara. From B.G. Kent Esq.. Cf. a similar rattle in the London Missionary Society collections in the Museum of Mankind, collected before 1890 from the Berbice River region, Guyana, and another used by the Warao Indians of the Orinoco Delta, where they are called lebumataro; the slits are referred to as 'eyes'. They were used by shamans, and for the preparation of this type of rattle and its use amongst the Warao see Wilbert, 1974.