Flute
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1876
name: label: Donor Name
content: Col. Paul E. Beckwith
notes: label: Notes
content: Provenience note: In the ledger and card catalog, "Mini Wakan l." appears as part of the locale designation. This is very likely a corruption of Mini Waukon Chante," the old indian name for the lake, which early settlers had mistakenly glossed as "Devil's Lake." (cfs/1995). From card: "A stick of cedar split longitudinally and each half hollowed to form when placed together two air chambers, the lower one open at the bottom and separated from the upper by a partition of solid wood 3/4 in thick, the upper chamber has it upper end perforated by a small hole through its axis. The front half of the instrument or sections has two square holes made close to but on opposite side of the solid partition. The outer surface above, below and between these holes is made perfectly flat and a plate of zine [sic] of the same size as this flat surface has a slot down its middle of the same width as the square holes and its length but a little short of the distance from the upper edge of one hole to the lower edge of the other. This zinc is placed on the flat place made for it and above it is placed a cap of wood perfectly flat on the surface next to the [zinc]. The width of the slot forming the air passage that directs the air against the lip of the sound hole and the thickness of the [zinc], the depth of this passage. When the two halves are brought together the [zinc] plate and cap are in place, the whole is lashed together with thongs. The lower end of the slot forms the sharp lip of the sound hole, the lower edge of the cap is directly above the lower face of the solid partitions. Seven finger holes are made in the front half of the instrument in line with and below the square sound holes. The bow slightly expands with the balls, ten holes are made in the bell for ornament. Illus. in U.S.NM. Rept, 1900; pl. 4, fig. 4; p. 442”
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Devil's Lake (Fort Totten) Agency, Benson County, Dakota Territory / North Dakota, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Sioux (Oceti Sakowin)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 005272
label: USNM Number
content: E23724-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Flute