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)
11. vessel rattles

Narrower term/s

• chocalhos

Anotations

Scope note:

South and Central American gourd rattles, usually oval, with a natural handle, filled with dried seeds or pebbles, or imitations thereof in wood, clay, bakelite, or metal filled with beads, shot, or other rattling pieces. They are usually played in pairs.