Oboe (Peechawar)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1876
name: label: Donor Name
content: Philadelphia Centennial International Exhibition, Royal Siamese Commission
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "[originally] CATALOGUED UNDER 27,313 AS PEE CHAWAH. ACCORDING TO NOTES ON SIAMESE MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, P. 17, PEECHAWAR IS THE CORRECT NAME. A KIND OF FLAGEOLET, RESEMBLING THE "CHABBABEH" OF PERSIA, WITH SEVEN FINGER HOLES ABOVE AND ONE BELOW; ROSE-WOOD, BRASS MOUNTED. INVENTORIED 1974."
label: Notes
content: This object is identified as a Peechawar, is marked "Siam" in old handwriting, and closely resembles Catalogue No. E77-0, a Peechawar from Thailand. There appears to have been an error in the entry for this artifact in the Anthropology catalogue ledger book, which was subsequently echoed on the catalogue card when its catalogue card was typed, and this artifact was mistakenly identified as part of the Sourindro Mohun Tagore collection from India, when it is instead part of the King of Siam Centennial Exposition collection, and is from Thailand.
label: Notes
content: Illustrated and described in McQuail, Lisa. 1997. "Treasures of Two Nations: Thai Royal Gifts to the United States of America" Smithsonian Institution. p. 128
label: Record Last Modified
content: 21 Dec 2018
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Thailand, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Siamese
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 005318
label: USNM Number
content: E54067-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Oboe