Flute Direct
date: label: Accession Date
content: 7 May 1869
label: Collection Date
content: Ca 1869
name: label: Collector
content: Col. Philip Figyelmessy
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "MADE FROM THE RIGHT THIGH BONE OF ONE OF THE CAT FAMILY, PROBABLY THE "PUMA". THE NATURAL CAVITY OF THE BONE FORMING ITS BASE. THE LOWER END OF THE BONE IS CUT SQUARE ACROSS JUST ABOVE THE JOINT AND A NOTCH 5/16 IN. WIDE AND 6/8 IN. DEEP IS MADE IN THE EDGE OF THE FRONT SIDE. THREE 1/16 IN. FINGER HOLES ARE MADE IN THE FRONT SIDE INTO THE BASE. THEY ARE RESPECTIVELY 1-7/8, 3-3/8 AND 4-3/4 IN. BELOW THE LOWER EDGE OF THE NOTCH. AT THE OPPOSITE END FROM THE NOTCH AN OPENING IS MADE INTO THE BASE. SOMETIMES THE END IN WHICH THE NOTCH IS MADE IS NEARLY FILLED WITH PITCH, BUT NO TRACES OF PITCH ARE FOUND IN THE SPECIMEN. THE OUTSIDE OF THE BONE HAS BEEN SCRAPED."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 20 Apr 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Guyana, South America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 001567
label: USNM Number
content: E8700-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Flute