Love Or Courting Flute
date: label: Accession Date
content: 23 Jun 1875
name: label: Donor Name
content: Lt. William L. Carpenter
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "A ROUND STICK OF CEDAR OR OTHER SOFT WOOD IS SPLIT LONGITUDINALLY AND THE HALVES EXCAVATED SO THAT WHEN PLACED TOGETHER TWO CHAMBERS WILL BE FORMED. THE UPPER ONE IS THE MOUTH TUBE, AND HAS A SMALL HOLE IN ITS UPPER END. IT IS SEPARATED FROM THE LOWER CHAMBER BY A HALF INCH OF SOLID WOOD. IN THE FRONT HALF OF THIS CLOSE TO THE SOLID PARTITION IS A SMALL HOLE THROUGH THE SIDE OF THE CHAMBER. THE CHAMBER IS OPEN ON ITS LOWER END AND ON ITS FRONT A HOLE IS MADE THROUGH THE WALLS. IT IS IN LINE WITH THE HOLE IN UPPER CHAMBER; BELOW THIS THE SIX FINGER HOLES ARE MADE. THE OUTER SURFACE ABOUT AND AROUND THE HOLES ON EITHER SIDE OF PARTITION IS MADE FLAT. THE OUTSIDE APPENDAGES ARE MISSING. BUT IT IS SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN SIMILAR TO THOSE OF NO. 23.724. ORIGINAL LABEL ON SPEC. READS: "MUSICAL INSTRUMENT OF SIOUX INDIANS, (RED CLOUDS' BAND) PRESENTED BY LT. W.L. CARPENTER, U.S.ARMY, 1875.""
label: Record Last Modified
content: 16 Oct 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Plains Northern, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Sioux (Oceti Sakowin), Oglala Lakota
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 75A00025
label: USNM Number
content: E17425-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Flute