Flute
date: label: Accession Date
content: 19 Apr 1895
name: label: Collector
content: William Dinwiddie
label: Collector
content: William J. McGee
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "175,048-175,049. NO FINGER HOLES. FROM CARD: "FLAGEOLET OR REED PIPE.-MADE OF TWO SECTIONS OF REED (PHRAGMITIS COMMUNIS) BOUND WITH SINEW. THE HEAD, OR UPPER PART, HAS THE USUAL WHISTLE-SHAPE SOUND HOLE. THE PLUG IS A SECTION OF REED, HELD AGAINST THE UPPER PORTION OF THE TUBE BY A PEG. THE SPACE BETWEEN THE UPPER PORTION OF THE TUBE AND THE REED FORMS THE AIR PASSAGE, AND THE SPACE BETWEEN THIS SECTION AND THE LOWER PORTION OF THE TUBE IS FILLED WITH THE LOWER LIP. THE LOWER HALF OF THE PIPE HAS TWO FINGER HOLES, 16 AND 17 1/8 INCHES FROM THE SOUND HOLE. THERE IS A THUMB HOLE 14 3/8 INCHES FROM THE SOUND HOLE. THE DIAPHRAGMS IN THE REED HAVE ALL BEEN REMOVED, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE LAST LOWER ONE, WHICH HAS A 1/4-INCH PERFORATION THROUGH IT. LENGTH, 22 INCHES; DIAMETER, 7/8 TO 1 INCH. PAPAGO INDIANS, PIMA CO., ARIZONA, 1894. 175,048. COLLECTED BY W J MCGEE AND WM. DINWIDDIE. (SEE LABEL ON DRUM.)"
label: Record Last Modified
content: 6 Mar 2017
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
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: 029280
label: USNM Number
content: E175049-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Flute
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 56 cm
label: Minimum Diameter - Object
content: 2.223 cm
label: Maximum Diameter - Object
content: 3 cm