Wooden Horn
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1876
name: label: Collector
content: James G. Swan
label: Donor Name
content: James G. Swan
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD FOR 20689-92 : "2 CHAMBERS. #20689 - CEREMONIAL TRUMPET, TSIMSHIAN, FT. SIMPSON, B.C.-ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1888; PL. 61, FIG. 324; P. 330. ILLUS. IN USNM REPT., 1896; PL. 72, FIG. 3; P. 564....NO. 20689 SENT AS EXCHANGE TO F. W. GALPIN HATFIELD VICARAGE, HARLOW ESSEX, NOV. 25, 1907."
label: Notes
content: FROM SECOND CARD: "DOUBLE DOUBLE-REED INSTRUMENT. AN OVAL BLOCK OF WOOD, SOMETHING OF THE FORM OF A PADDLE, SPLIT LONGITUDINALLY THROUGH ITS MAJOR AXIS. THE HALVES ARE EXCAVATED TO FORM TWO AIR PASSAGES STARTING FROM LOWER END AND ENDING IN ONE BEFORE IT REACHES THE TOP. IN EACH OF THE TWO AIR PASSAGES IS PACKED A DOUBLE REED MADE OF WOOD. THE HALVES ARE BROUGHT TOGETHER AND LASHED WITH FOUR BANDS OF SPRUCE ROOT. SEE WILSON'S PREHISTORIC ART, PP. 565 AND PL. 72, FIG. 3. ALSO U.S.M. REPORT, 1888, PL. LXI, FIG. 324."
label: Notes
content: Ian Reid (Heiltsuk) of the delegation from Bella Bella, Bella Coola and Rivers Inlet communities of British Columbia made the following comments during the Recovering Voices Community Research Visit May 20th - 24th, 2013. It looks to be a root strapping. There are a great variety of whistles because there's a different sound for every spirit or being that was imitated. When we impersonated the supernatural they all didn't sound the same. It is held together by tree sap, it's like fiberglass when you use it; it's really hard.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 14 Feb 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Fort Simpson, British Columbia, Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Bella Bella (Heiltsuk, Haíłzaqv)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 004686
label: USNM Number
content: E20689-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Whistle