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medicine rattle 
a rattle used by the Indians in medicine rituals and to accompany singing and dancing. [See picture at shishiquoi.]
See also: shishiquoi
- 1842 The medicine-bag, rattle, and juggling tricks of the priest were, however, the ordinary hopes of restoration.
- 1934 For days he (medicine man) had howled and shouted, waved his medicine-rattle and pounded his tom-tom close to the girl's body in hopes that the noise would drive the evil spirits out, but all to no avail.
- 1842 The medicine-bag, rattle, and juggling tricks of the priest were, however, the ordinary hopes of restoration.