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Description : African, Angola, Chokwe culture, 20th century. Rattles (musambu) are an African art form, not only used as musical instruments, but also as a works of sculpture employed in religious and secular ceremonies involving dance and other rituals. This example assumes a double-chambered, dumbell shape with seeds inside each end of the basketry form to produce lively, syncopated beats. Published in Turn Up the Volume A Celebration of African Music UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History (1999), catalogue number 25, p. 261. The catalogue description reads as follows, Double-chambered basketry rattles are part of an ensemble used by a Chokwe diviner to diagnose a client's problems. The rattle is used to invoke the diviner's tutelary ancestor (Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje, Ed. Turn Up the Volume! A Celebration of African Music Los Angeles: UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, 1999, cat. no. 25, p. 261 from Manuel Jordan, Chokwe! Art and Initiation among Chokwe and Related Peoples. New York: Prestel, 1998, figs. 118, 119) 12-1/2L Provenance: Ex-Leonard Kalina Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA All items legal to buy/sell under U.S. Statute covering cultural patrimony Code 2600, CHAPTER 14, and are guaranteed to be as described or your money back. A Certificate of Authenticity will accompany all winning bids.
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