Rattle
Artist
Unknown African
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)
(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 ArtObject Type
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.
Published References Castaneda, Chris. "Rice Museum offers tribal art," The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), vol. 68, no. 21, ed. 1, Thursday, January 29, 1981. Page 11. Anderson, Martha G. and Philip M. Peek, ed., "Ways of the Rivers: Arts and Environment of the Niger Delta", Los Angeles, The University of California, 2002, p. 244.
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