Double Reed Wood-Instrument
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: "AN OVAL TAPERING PIECE OF PINE, DIVIDED LONGITUDINALLY INTO HALVES. THE HALVES ARE EXCAVATED SIMILAR TO 20,698 AND FITTED WITH A LARGE OVAL SEED MADE OF PINE. THE MOUTH PIECE IS REDUCED IN SIZE TO BETTER FIT THE LIPS. SHALLOW GROOVES ARE MADE IN THE OUTSIDE TO KEEP THE LASHINGS ONE OF SPRUCE ROOT. THE JOINTS ARE MADE TIGHT WITH PITCH OR GUN"
label: Notes
content: Ian Reid (Heiltsuk) and Clyde Tallio (Nuxalk) 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's a single reed with hide and spruce root binding. On the end it's sap. It has a red cedar chamber, spruce root, tan hide binding and burlap sack helping it hold the reed in place. The reed itself looks like red or yellow cedar. It might be pine, but not the chamber.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 14 Feb 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: 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: E20692-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Whistle