Musical Instrument: Flute
date: label: Accession Date
content: 17 May 1892
label: Collection Date
content: C. 1891
name: label: Collector
content: Mr. James Mooney
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: Courting flute (Domba). Section of cedar painted red, split and hollowed, rejoined with pitch and tied with series of hide thongs. Roughly carved stop in shape of bird. 20.75" (53 cm). Records: The cracks are sealed with pine balsam. The six finger holes are burned through. Called a "love flute" and used for serenading. Illustrated in Ewers 1986: 165. (C, L). (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: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Kiowa And Comanche Reservation, Oklahoma / Indian 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: 025718
label: USNM Number
content: E152899-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Flute