Snake Charmers Pipe "Tubri, Tiktiri Poongi"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 26 Feb 1884
name: label: Donor Name
content: Foreign Exhibition, Boston
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Illus. in Bulletin 136, USNM, Pl. 17-g, p. 130. See Engel, p. 166, See Mahillon, vol. 1, p. 122, No. 55 and vol. 11, p. 7, No. 596. Body - an ovoid gourd, one bamboo tube six inches long and 7/8" diameter forms the mouth tube and is inserted in one end of body. From the lower end of body projects two bamboo tubes 8 1/4" long and 5/8" diameter. Each tube is flattened in front and four finger holes made in each. In the upper end of each of these tubes inside gourd is fitted a free beating reed made of a closed section of bamboo, its outer diameter about the same size as the bore of the tubes."
label: Notes
content: This wind instrument is commonly called a pungi; also called the been, or bin.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 5 Jul 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: India, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Bengali
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 014094
label: USNM Number
content: E92714-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Wind Instrument