Beauty Surrounds Us - Smithsonian Institution

wood, hide. 8/1650. Tlingit shamans shook round wooden rattles to communicate with the supernatural world. This rattle is carved with depictions of a bear and a hawk, which may have been spirits the shaman solicited to help cure illness. RIGHT: Aymara charango (guitar), ca. 1910. Department of Cochabamba, Bolivia. Armadillo shell, wood, shell ...

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