Rattle model

This Janus rattle is to be compared with a model from the former Helena Rubistein collection.

Holm and Reid ¹ note that the striated edge, also illustrated on a specimen from the Herbig-Haarhaus Lackmuseum in Cologne (Inventory no. AM-BG-2-1, acquired in 1941⁾², and on our model, could represent the shell of a mollusc (molusca bivalvia). Other comparable models are illustrated in Wardwell’s book.
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1. Holm, B & Reid, W. 1975. Form and freedom. A dialogue on Northwest Coast indian Art. Houston, p.202
2. Wardwell, A. 1996. Tangible vision: Northwest Coast Indian shamanism and its Art.
   New-York n°371, 372 and 374.

Price: €11,500