Flute
date: label: Accession Date
content: 14 Nov 1947
name: label: Collector
content: Brig. Gen. James D. Glennan
label: Donor Name
content: Frances Glennan
notes: label: Notes
content: Courting flute. Section of split, hollowed cedar painted yellow, wrapped at each end with sinew painted blue and yellow, tied with hide thongs and commercial twine. Incised and painted lines around finger holes. Diaphragm engraved and painted with cross hatching. Stop carved as bird effigy. 20" (51 cm). Records: Used in courting. Illustrated in: Ewers 1986: 165. (from Merrill, William L. et al. 1997. A Guide to the Kiowa Collections at the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology, no. 40. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 31 May 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Oklahoma Territory, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Kiowa
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 177672
label: USNM Number
content: E385877-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Flute