Rattle

CultureUrhobo peoples
Titles
  • Rattle
Date1900–1935
Place , Nigeria, Africa
MediumWood
Dimensions15 3/4 long × 4 1/4 × 1 3/4 inches
(40 × 10.8 × 4.4 cm)
Credit LineThe Dr. Gus K. Nicholson Collection
Object number91.1529
Not on view

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Department
African Art
ProvenanceDr. Gus K. Nicholson (1942–1989), Houston, by 1989; by inheritance to his heirs, 1989–1991; given to MFAH, 1991.
Exhibition History"Sculpture of Black Africa: The Gus Nicholson Collection," Rice Museum, Rice University, Houston, December 12, 1980–February 22, 1981.

"Ways of the Rivers: Arts and Environment in the Niger Delta," Fowler Museum of Cultural History, University of California Los Angeles, May 19–November17, 2002.

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