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This ritual dance rattle in the form of a raven is part of the Native American collection of the Indianapolis Museum of Art in Indianapolis Indiana. Made by the Haida people of British Columbia in the early- to mid-19th century it contains a number of spiritually significant totems whose power would be harnessed by shamans to control spirits during rituals.

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