Field noisemaker

Source catalog description

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

A wooden hand-crafted field noisemaker, with a gearwheel and two horizontal stiff boards at the top, with a vertical curved board in between, laying between wooden rods connecting the top and bottom horizontal wooden sheets, all mounted on a handle, which rotates freely, making noise as rotated. Part of handle that is between horizontal wooden sheets is jagged (resembling a gear, with identical protrusions around the entire circumfrance). Handle is finished/glossy while other wood is rough and textured. There are nails sticking out of the boards in various places. There are two extra holes in the bottom horizontal wooden sheet, near the center.

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