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November is the traditional time of harvest, gathering, and celebration in Native communities.
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Native Americans playing drums at a powwow.
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Gerimiah Holy Bull of the Sicangu Lakota Oyate performing a Fancy Dance in Badlands...
© Greg Vaughn/Alamy
Yaqui Deer dancer from Sonora, Mexico, wearing strung-cocoon rattles on his legs...
Miguel Salgado
Tripod vessel with rattles, fine orange ceramic with plumbate glaze, Mayan culture,...
Photograph by Beesnest McClain. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, gift of Constance McCormick Fearing, M.86.311.35
Kwakiutl man in traditional dress, holding a ceremonial staff and a shaman's rattle;...
Edward S. Curtis Collection/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (neg. no. LC-USZ62-52212)
Couple in the form of a whistle, ceramic with postfire applied pigment, Mayan culture,...
Photograph by Beesnest McClain. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, gift of Constance McCormick Fearing, M.86.311.4
Mayan rattle, ceramic, made with a mold, from Mexico, 700–1000 ce;...
Photograph by Beesnest McClain. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, gift of Constance McCormick Fearing, AC1996.146.45
Toad ocarina, slip-painted ceramic, Nopiloa, southern Veracruz, Mexico, 700–900...
Photograph by Joel Parham. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, gift of the Art Museum Council in honor of the museum's twenty-fifth anniversary, M.90.168.26
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