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Maracas existed as long as the Stone Age. Maracas originated among several ancient civilizations at the same time. African tribes were believed to the first to use the maracas .they use it for festival dances and cheering for hunting. Later the south Pacific Islander made their own maracas by using plants seed and dried coconut. years later it changed and formed into the maracas today they are essential to today's Latin and south American ensembles, the history of maracas was found through the artworks of pre Columbian Indian.

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