From the event:
Audubon Day Celebration
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
This rattle, from the site of Paquimé (Casas Grandes) Mexico, 1350AD, is decorated with a bird on top that may be a quail. The rattle is also decorated with unique macaw images, with 5 to 6 macaws in a circle mirrored on both sides of the base, and with additional macaws on the sides of the vessel. Macaws have been extremely important birds to people living in Mexico and the Southwest.
Credit: Photograph by Amy Montoya; Photo and object property of the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Catalog number 37771/11
Note: Representative image at left is often cropped for display purposes. Downloaded high-resolution images are not cropped.
