Flageolet: "Domba" Male
date: label: Accession Date
content: 15 Feb 1896
name: label: Collector
content: Mr. James Mooney
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "CEDAR DETAIL OF CARVED STOP ILLUS.: EWERS, JOHN C. PLAINS INDIAN SCULPTURE; FIG. 157B, PG. 165. STOP CARVED IN FORM OF BIRD HEAD WITH GLASS BEAD EYE."
label: Notes
content: Courting flute (Domba). Made of split, hollowed section of cedar painted red and yellow, wrapped with three sections of green-painted sinew. Incised and painted geometric designs. Bird effigy stop. 22" (56 cm). Records: Male. Illustrated in: Ewers 1986: 165. (C). (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: 1 Dec 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: 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: 030341
label: USNM Number
content: E175632-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Flute