Indian Flageolet
date: label: Accession Date
content: 18 Sep 1884
name: label: Collector
content: Edward W. Nelson
notes: label: Notes
content: INFORMATION IN ACCESSION FILE FROM COLLECTOR STATES THAT THIS COLLECTION IS FROM PAPAGO INDIANS OF THE TUCSON AREA. AT SOME POINT IN THE PAST AN UNKNOWN PERSON DECIDED TO CALL THIS FLUTE MOHAVE ON THE CATALOGUE CARD, BUT LEFT NO JUSTIFICATION FOR THIS IDENTIFICATION. THEREFORE, OBJECT IS BEING RETURNED TO ITS ORIGINAL PAPAGO DESIGNATION. SEE PROCESSING LAB ACCESSION FILE FOR FURTHER INFORMATION. - J. ARCHAMBAULT AND C. GREENE 10-7-1996
label: Notes
content: Remarks on the card indicate the item was exchanged to F.W. Galpin in 1907, but this is crossed out and a note by R. Elder, Jr. dated 11/1/1950 states: "A flute with this number was still in the collection."
label: Notes
content: Michael F. Suing, Curatorial Research Fellow at The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston reports that they have a flute that has a former catalog number "107.535" and "E.W. Nelson, Tucson, Arizonia [sic]" written on it. This seems to match our catalog number 107535, a flute collected in Tucson by Nelson. However, there is another flute that is still in the NMNH collection, which is also marked with the catalog number and "Tuscon, Arizona," and it also matches the measurements on the card. The ledger book says there is only one flute. It has a drawing of it that matches the one we have (the placement of the finger-holes and a joint in the wood are the same). The 1900 USNM Annual Report has a matching photo as well. So it does not appear that the flute we have is misnumbered. It is possible that the MFA flute is the one that was apparently transferred to Galpin in 1907. If so, it is not clear whether 107535 was the wrong catalog number for it, or whether 107535 was the correct number for both flutes (meaning that the count in the ledger was wrong, or the number was accidentally used twice).
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Arizona, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Papago (Tohono O'odham)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 014890
label: USNM Number
content: E107535-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Flute