Whistle

Museum number:
1-1662
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010001662
Alternate number:
246 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.17 and Acc.86
Description:
Bone, wrapped in natural colored fiber in bands from center to distal end. Leather wrapping near proximal end. Black mastic plug at distal end.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Yurok
Collector:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection date:
1901
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Whistles
Function:
5.4 Secular and Religious Musical Instruments
Accession date:
1903 and November 20, 1901
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
length 12.2 centimeters and diameter 1.5 centimeters
Comment:
Photo: "15-4802
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Whistle, accession number 1-1662, described as Bone, wrapped in natural colored fiber in bands from center to distal end. Leather wrapping near proximal end. Black mastic plug at distal end.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Whistle, accession number 1-1662, described as Bone, wrapped in natural colored fiber in bands from center to distal end. Leather wrapping near proximal end. Black mastic plug at distal end.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Whistle, accession number 1-1662, described as Bone, wrapped in natural colored fiber in bands from center to distal end. Leather wrapping near proximal end. Black mastic plug at distal end.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Whistle, accession number 1-1662, described as Bone, wrapped in natural colored fiber in bands from center to distal end. Leather wrapping near proximal end. Black mastic plug at distal end.

Tools