Old Native American Snapping
Turtle Rattle
…beautiful collection
and display piece
Native American snapping turtle
rattle, probably Iroquois, Neck stretched and supported with wooden splints and
wrapped with soft hide… Small turtle
shell rattles were frequently used by Native Americans… However, the shells of
large snapping turtles were originally used by Seneca and Iroquois singers
during the Great Feather Dance and in healing rituals of the False Face...
Iroquois mythology maintains that the earth rests on the back of a turtle… a beautiful
collection and display piece… Please see detail photos which form part of the description… STU/44A
The
measurements are
Size: 6 cm
High X 47 cm Long X 20 cm Wide
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NOTE
Many of the items for sale at Jim’s International Bazaar
were collected by Jim on his around the world adventures as an author,
photojournalist and photographer. They include Turkish rugs, copper and
brass, and artifacts from
ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPHER
James Anderson
is an internationally renowned photojournalist and
adventurer, with two major photographic books (New Guinea & Cannibal), plus
covers and major spreads in a whole host of internationally prestigious
magazines from Life International to The Geographic and Argosy.
He's been shipwrecked in the Pacific, wrestled camels in
A blue-water yachtsman, he sailed his own 60ft yacht, the
"Moana Vahine", from Hong Kong to Southern Turkey, down the South
China Sea, across the Indian Ocean, and up the full length of the Red Sea, via
Singapore, Panang, Sri lanki, The Maldive Islands, and French Djibouti. An avid
diver and spear fisherman, he mounted a series of diving expeditions in The
In addition to several years in