Nose Flute
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1838 to 1842
name: label: Collector
content: Lt. Cadwalader Ringgold
label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: A CLOSED JOINT SECTION OF BAMBOO, WITH EIGHT HOLES. DECORATED WITH INCISED AND BURNED (POKERWORK) TRIANGULAR DESIGNS. HAS PART OF THE ORIGINAL PEALE TAG; ALSO READ UNDER ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT "EX EX, B[OX] 23, V[INCENNES]". THIS OBJECT WAS ON PERMANENT EXHIBIT IN THE PACIFIC HALL, N.M.N.H., 1984, AND WAS REMOVED FOR EXHIBITION IN MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86. EXHIBITED SITES "MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS," 1987-89.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "A CLOSED SECTION OF BAMBOO. CLOSED BY ITS JOINTS. EIGHT HOLES, ONE AT EACH END AND THREE IN A LINE BETWEEN THEM, ONE OPPOSITE THE MIDDLE HOLE AND ONE ON EACH SIDE BETWEEN THE MIDDLE HOLE AND ITS OPPOSITE. (DECORATED WITH DESIGNS IN CHARRED LINES. BLOWN BY ONE NOSTRIL, THE OTHER BEING CLOSED BY THE THUMB. LOAN: SITES JAN 9 1987. MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: American Samoa (not certain), Samoa (not certain) / United States (not certain), Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Samoan
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3460-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Nose Flute
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 63.5 cm
label: Diameter - Object
content: 5 cm