Gourd Shaker with Job’s Tear seeds

Description

This type of shaker is made from a dried gourd that has naturally shaped handle and a bulbous end that allows for a beaded net to cover it. A small hole is cut in one end of the gourd and all the fibrous material and seeds are removed and the inside scraped clean. The sound is lively and can vary slightly depending the actual thickness and hardness of the particular gourd used.

The Job’s Tear seed shaker is popular for it’s organic, lively and some think spiritual sound. The Jobs Tear is a natural and very hard seed with blue-white-brown coloring, it is naturally formed with a hole through its center which make it perfect for stringing on a shaker. Handcrafted in Ghana and Togo by expert craftspeople, each shaker is a small work of art. In Ewe part of Ghana the local name for this type of gourd shaker is axatse -pronounced “ah-Haht-say”

The shakers are sized by measuring the widest diameter of the gourd that is covered with the net, not by measuring their length.

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