Flute

Museum number:
9-17905
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.4219
Description:
Musical pipe,bamboo;unstained pipe w/6 holes;underside has hole cut into it(for air to escape);end near player's mouth has separate piece of wood inserted only leaving sm.,semi-circular hole in which to blow;some chips on end of pipe;both ends trimmed...
Donor:
Beth Harnex MacLafferty Blake
Collection place:
Vietnam
Verbatim coll. place:
Vietnam;; Montagnard
Collection date:
1954-1959
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Flutes (aerophones)
Function:
5.4 Secular and Religious Musical Instruments
Accession date:
March 11, 1987
Context of use:
(descrip)...for smoothness. L. 35.2 cm.
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Flute, accession number 9-17905, described as Musical pipe,bamboo;unstained pipe w/6 holes;underside has hole cut into it(for air to escape);end near player's mouth has separate piece of wood inserted only leaving sm.,semi-circular hole in which to blow;some chips on end of pipe;both ends trimmed...
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Flute, accession number 9-17905, described as Musical pipe,bamboo;unstained pipe w/6 holes;underside has hole cut into it(for air to escape);end near player's mouth has separate piece of wood inserted only leaving sm.,semi-circular hole in which to blow;some chips on end of pipe;both ends trimmed...

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