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This pottery rattle is in the shape of a ball used in an Aztec game.
Although numerous pottery instruments survive from pre-Conquest South and Central America, little is known of how they were used before Spanish invaders ravaged the native cultures.
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Title: Pottery Rattle
Period: Pre-Columbian
Date: 1200–1521
Geography: Central Plateau Region, Mexico
Culture: Mexican
Medium: Clay
Dimensions: 5.5cm x 5.5cm x 5.5cm
Classification: Idiophone-Shaken-rattle
Credit Line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889
Object Number: 89.4.2065
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