rattle

photo: Waldemar Kielichowski © Institute of Music and Dance, Warsaw

Classification: 1 Idiophones / 11 Struck idiophones / 112 Indirectly struck idiophones / 112.1 Shaken idiophones or rattles
Maker: Unknown
Date: ca 1935
Village / Town: Rudnik Szlachecki
Region: Lubelskie Province
Country: Poland
Owner: Ethnographic Museum, department of the National Museum in Poznań
Inventory number: MNP E 2742
Description: vessel made from small, crossed pieces of wood, filled with small stones
Measurements: length 190 mm
Materials: wood, gravel
Performance practice: a music tool, formerly used to make the so-called ritual noise during folk Koledari ceremonies, later a toy
Catalog card by: Aneta Skibińska / Zbigniew J. Przerembski


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