Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name)
4. Sound Devices (hierarchy name)
5. sound devices (equipment)
6. [sound devices by acoustical characteristics]
7. idiophones
8. struck idiophones
9. indirectly struck idiophones
10. rattles (indirectly struck idiophones)

Additional parents:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Furnishings and Equipment
4. Sound Devices
5. sound devices
6. sound devices by function
7. ceremonial sound devices

Narrower term/s

• gragers

Anotations

Scope note:

Shaken instruments used for religious or ceremonial practices. Widely used across religious traditions; some examples include Native North American and African religious ceremonies.