Direct Flute
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1874
name: label: Donor Name
content: F Albuquerque
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "THIS INSTRUMENT IS AS MUCH A FLUTE AS A FLAGEOLET AND SHOWS THE DEVELOPMENT FROM THE DIRECT FLUTE TO THE FLAGEOLET. A BONE. ITS NATURAL FORMING THE BASE; THE UPPER END HAS AN OBLIQUE CUT ON ITS FACE AND END; THE LOWER PART OF THE TRIANGULAR OPENING THUS MADE FORMING THE SOUND HOLE, AGAINST WHICH THE LIP CIRECT THE BREATH. THE LOWER END IS CLOSED WITH PITCH WITH A SMALL FINGER HOLE IN THE PITCH. THERE ARE ALSO THREE FINGER HOLES IN THE BONE NEAR LOWER END. DECORATED WITH BEADS FEATHERS, TASSELS; THE FEATHERS ARE CEMENTED IN HORN TIPS." FROM CARD: "WHISTLE OR FLUTE.--MADE OF A SHORT BONE; MOUTH-HOLE IN ONE END AND THREE SMALL FINGER-HOLES ON TOP. TWO SHORT BUNCHES OF BRILLIANT RED AND YELLOW OUTER TAIL COVERTS OF A TOUCAN (RAMPHASTOS), AND YELLOW AND GREEN FEATHERS FROM A PARROT'S TAIL IN SMALL BLACK HORN CAPS, ARE SUSPENDED BY STRINGS OF RED AND WHITE GLASS BEADS AS ORNAMENTS. LENGTH, 6 3/4 INCHES. RIO GRANDE DEL SUD, BRAZIL. 15,825. GIFT OF F. ALBUQUERQUE."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 14 Nov 2016
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Rio Grande Del Sud, Brazil, South America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 003397
label: USNM Number
content: E15825-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Flute
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 17.14 cm