Shekere owned by Dr. Baba Chuck Davis

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A shekere owned by Dr. Baba Chuck Davis. The instrument is constructed from a dried, hallow gourd with beads woven into a net covering the rounded portion of the gourd. The netting is made from knotted string and red and white plastic beads. The beads have been woven into alternating red and white stacked triangles. The top of the netting is decorated with the string ends that have been unraveled and brushed out into fluff. Dark ink markings on the top of the shakere read [P[---?]S]. The bottom of the shakere is a handle fashioned from the top of gourd that have been sliced diagonally. A thicker string has been attached to two (2) holes at the bottom of the shakere and held in place with thick knots in the interior of the gourd.

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