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CARVED WOODEN SUN-MOON RATTLE (Item No. Rattle 001)
Origin: Native American - Tlingit or Haida
Age: 10-20 years approx
Length: 330mm (13 inches approx)
Price: £165 (including postage worldwide)

This beautiful hand carved and painted traditional rattle has a face on both sides with radiating beams of light or energy coming out of the head. One face represents the Sun and the other the Moon.

The rattle is in perfect condition and is all carved from one piece of wood. It has a bound rope grip on the handle. A stunning one-off piece of carving and a very special item for your shamanic practice.

For more information about rattles please read the articles about them on the articles page of this website

CARVED WOODEN FACE RATTLE (Item No. Rattle 002)
Origin: Native American - Tlingit or Haida
Age: 10-20 years approx
Length: 250mm (9.8 inches approx)
Price: £135 (including postage worldwide)

This beautiful hand carved and painted traditional rattle is in the shape of a head with a face. It might represent a Bear spirit, or the spirit of Bakwas, the 'Wild man of the Woods'.

For more information about rattles please read the articles about them on the articles page of this website

CARVED WOODEN SHAMAN'S OYSTERCATCHER AND FROG RATTLE (Item No. Rattle 003)
Origin: Native American - Tlingit or Haida
Age: 10-20 years approx
Length: 446mm (17.5 inches approx)
Price: £225 (including postage worldwide)

This beautiful hand carved and painted 'shaman's rattle' is in the shape of an oystercatcher, with a frog riding on it's back.

Rattles such as is this were historically used by shamans in curing ceremonies. The oystercatcher is powerful to Northwest Coast shamans, as it inhabits the shoreline - the world between the water and land - which parallels the shaman's role between the human and spirit worlds. The Frog also shares this dual aspect, living both above and below the water, and also frogs are important in Northwestern cosmology as bringers of luck.

The rattle is similar to one that sold a little while ago, but this one is not quite of such high craftsmanship and does not have abalone shell in it's eyes. It is still however a stunning peice of work, and is in perfect condition - all carved from one piece of wood. It has a bound rope grip on the handle. A stunning one-off piece of carving and a very special item for your shamanic practice.

For more information about rattles please read the articles about them on the articles page of this website

CARVED CEDAR RATTLE (Item No. Rattle 004)
Origin: Native American - Northwest Coastal Tribe (possibly Haida)
Age: 70 - 40 years approx
Length: 320mm (12.5 inches approx)
Price: £95 (including postage worldwide)

A skillfully carved and age-worn Northwest Coast Cedarwood rattle. The rattle is beautifully carved on one side with a stylised bear and on the other with a killer whale. The rattle is in perfect condition, is pleasant to hold, and sounds nice. It would make a beautiful large medicine rattle or display object.

For more information about rattles please read the articles about them on the articles page of this website.

CARVED AND PAINTED CEDAR RATTLE (Item No. Rattle 005)
Origin: Native American - Northwest Coastal Tribe (possibly Haida)
Age: 50 - 30 years approx
Length: 90mm (7 inches)
Price: £45 (including postage worldwide)

Painted Northwest Coast Cedarwood rattle, probably a tourist piece from the 1940's. The rattle is painted with a traditional design in black and red. The rattle is in fairly good condition, although there is sign of a past small repair. To be used as a rattle in your practice, it would be advisable to do a small amount of easy to do restoration work, as it has a slight split that would benefit from a small amount of glue, and the handle is slightly loose and might need to be glued at some point. It is pleasant to hold, and sounds nice, and would, after a small amount of easy restoration work make a beautiful medicine rattle or it could be used with out any restoration as a display object.

For more information about rattles please read the articles about them on the articles page of this website.

SALT SHAKER 'PEYOTE' OR VETERAN'S RATTLE (Item No. Rattle 006)
Origin: Native American - Kiowa
Age: 40 - 20 years approx
Length (not including tassels): 410mm (16 inches approx)
Price: £115 (including postage worldwide)

A Kiowa metal salt shaker veteran's or dancers rattle. Rattles like this are traditionally given to Native American solders returning from active service in a war, although they are also used as dance rattles too. The rattle has a part peyote beaded wooden handle, ending in white buckskin tassels. Above the salt shaker it has a traditional horse hair tuft, decorated with more peyote beadwork. It is not a tourist piece and is in good condition with just slight dents to the salt shaker in a couple of places. It is a very loud rattle, and would make an excellent medicine rattle.

For more information about rattles please read the articles about them on the articles page of this website.