Used with Big Head Costume. Piece of angelica root attached. Reed, double. Reeds, each with single hole at center, lashed together with red and green fish line. Brown cotton carrying handle. Distal end stoppered with pitch.
Donor:
Samuel A. Barrett and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Lake County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Eastern Pomo
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
1960
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Whistles
Function:
5.4 Secular and Religious Musical Instruments
Accession date:
1960
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
length 22.3 centimeters and width 1.6 centimeters
Comment:
Used with Big Head Costume. Piece of angelica root attached.
Loans:
S1968-1969 #133: KQED Television (June 10, 1969–June 17, 1969), S1969-1970 #73: KQED Television (January 27, 1970–January 29, 1970), and S1976-1977 #80: Music Library (UC Berkeley) (May 6, 1977–May 9, 1977)