Flute, Small Transverse
date: label: Accession Date
content: 7 Apr 1988
label: Collection Date
content: N/A
name: label: Donor Name
content: Tae-Soon Ch'oe
notes: label: Notes
content: Aerophone. Made of bamboo tube banded with nylon strips. Has a blowing hole and six finger holes, and an ornamental tin plate affixed with leather strips. The tin plate is decorated with incised design of various musical instruments and an inscription: p'arum (lit., eight sounds). P'arum means the eight basic materials used for the construction of traditional Korean musical instruments: 1) metal; 2)stone; 3)string; 4) bamboo; 5) gourd; 6) earth or clay; 7) leather; 8) wood. Used in orchestral ensembles.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Seoul, Gyeonggi Province, Korea, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Korean
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 356618
label: USNM Number
content: E423546-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Flute