Child’s Rattle

This cast bronze rattle comprises a hexagonal central pipe to both ends of which perforated hollow bulbous elements having jingle-bells are affixed. Inside the bulbs a few small pebbles are put. As the child holds the rattle in its fist and moves the hand, jingling sound is produced.
Among several communities it had become customary to gift a silver rattle to a newly born baby by the relatives and friends on their first visit to the baby’s family. Often such rattles had a jingling device at one end and a whistle at the other.