Musical Instrument: Flageolet
date: label: Accession Date
content: 12 Jun 1872
name: label: Donor Name
content: Gov William F. Arny
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "THE ... INDIAN FLAGEOLET. TWO JOINTS OF CANE DIVIDED BY THE SEPTUM NEAR THE MIDDLE. HOLES ARE MADE THROUGH THE WALLS OF THE TUBE ONE ABOVE THE OTHER BELOW THE SEPTUM, AND A GROOVE CUT FROM ONE TO THE OTHER ACROSS THE SEPTUM, ITS DEPTH BEING ABOUT DOUBLE ITS WIDTH. THE LOWER EDGE OF THE LOWER HOLE HAS BEEN BUILT UP WITH PITCH, THUS FORMING A SOUND HOLE WITH A SHARP EDGE, COVERING THE UPPER TUBE AND THE SLOT AS FAR AS THE LOWER FACE OF THE SEPTUM WITH THE FINGER OR A BANDAGE FORMS A CHANNEL WHICH DIRECTS THE WIND AGAINST THE SHARP EDGE OF THE SOUND HOLE. IT HAS THREE FINGER HOLES IN THAT PART BELOW THE SOUND HOLE. THE UPPER END OF TUBE IS SEIZED WITH A SMALL TWISTED CORD AND THE LOWER END WITH SINEWS. INVENTORIED 1974."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 18 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Arizona, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Apache
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 002421
label: USNM Number
content: E11314-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Flute