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PERFORMANCE

Music and Power




Kusuba
Mali
Ethnic groups: Peul and Bamanan
Made by Mamourou Camara
2000
Canadian Museum of Civilization

  Kusuba - CMC no. 2000.139.3a-b / Photo: Harry Foster


     

These rattles are made from the veins of palmyra leaves, which have been woven together. They contain seeds or pebbles that hit each other when the instrument is shaken.

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