Chakapa

Chakapa (sometimes spelled shakapa or Latinized to shacapa) is a Quechua word for a shaker or rattle constructed of bundled leaves.

[1] Curanderos (healers) and other shaman of the Shipibo-Conibo people in the Peruvian Amazon use the chakapa in healing ceremonies.

[2] In an ayahuasca ceremony, for example, a curandero may shake the chakapa around the patient while singing an icaro (healing song).

[citation needed] Some people report seeing green, blue, and gold ribbons of light form around the chakapa, and then move in tendrils about the room.

[4] A chakapa is made by tying together the leaves from the bush in a fashion that forms a fan shaped instrument.