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Maracas, Small Bamboo
Product Details
Maraca Size: Approximately 11.25 inches
Color/Style: Assorted
The listing includes: 1 Small Maraca
Maracas, or rumba shakers, are hand percussion instruments usually played in pairs and common in Caribbean, Latin American, and South American music. They are rattle instruments traditionally made of dried calabash gourds or turtle shells filled with beans, beads, or pebbles.
Some sources say the people of central Chile, pre-colonial Brazil, and West Africa invented these. It is also believed the Tainos of Puerto Rico invented the maracas. It is thought the maracas were originally used as rattles of divination by the Brazilian Tupinamba people.
They work very much like a rattle in terms of energy healing. They break up stagnant energy so that it can be removed and released. Made in Bali!