Rattle of zinc with notched wheel.

Collection type: Object
Description: Rattle of zinc with notched wheel.
Long description: With a single heart-shaped tongue in heart-shaped frame. The tongue is soldered to the frame for the greater part of the length. There are 9 points on the cog, the cog is attached to a stick made of a length of rolled metal. A paper label is stuck to the frame with the text: 25.
Geographical reference: Syria
Asia > Western Asia > Syria
Person: Field collector Unknown Collector; PRM source Beatrice Braithwaite Batty
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1917
Date collected: By 1917
Acquisition information: Donated: 07/1917
Materials and processes: Material Zinc Metal, Process Notched
Dimensions: Width: max 134 mm, Length: max 150 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1917.14.8
Research and responses: Purim rattle. At the feast of Purim, held in commemoration of the deliverance of the Jews from the designs of the wicked Haman the book of Esther is read, and whenever the name Haman occurs the men stamp with their feet and cry 'let his name be blotted out', whilst the boys used their rattles, and make as much noise as they can. [HLR]

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