Rattle

This instrument, collected in the field by Antoinette and Diana Powell-Cotton, was presented by Father Laagel (Roman Catholic Mission), and is associated with the Umbundu tribe. It is a hand rattle ("olusangu") made of two dried snuff-box tree fruit shells (probably Oncoba spinosa Forssk.) filled with small, round, and black plant seeds, and attached to a wooden handle. The rattle is used in initi…