Object Details
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; purchased by Helen Pep Grodka (1898-1982, an artist and Native American art enthusiast) from an unnamed dealer, possibly in Salisbury, New York, in 1973; donated to MAI in 1982 by Helen Pep Grodka's daughter and son-in-law, Sonia Grodka Blumenthal and Harry W. Blumenthal (1924-2013).
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl)
- Previous owner
- Helen Pep Grodka (Helen Groz Pep/A Tehom Win/Mrs. Frederick B. Grodka), Non-Indian, 1898-1982
- Donor
- Sonia Grodka Blumenthal (Sonia Dorothy Grodka), Non-Indian
- Harry W. Blumenthal, Non-Indian, 1924-2013
- Object Name
- Rattle
- Media/Materials
- Wood
- Techniques
- Carved, painted
- Dimensions
- 45.7 x 5.7 cm
- Object Type
- Music and Sound
