Whistle

Museum number:
1-11940
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010011940
Alternate number:
1102 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.291 and Acc.294
Description:
Dance whistle; double; reed. Closed at one end with pitch; tied together with string and wire; pitch inserted at air hole; one reed has a crack.
Donor:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Round Valley, Mendocino County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Mendocino; Round Valley
Culture or time period:
Yuki
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
July 1907
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Whistles
Function:
5.4 Secular and Religious Musical Instruments
Accession date:
1907
Context of use:
Musical instrument.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
length 10.8 centimeters
Comment:
S. A. Barrett field notes p. 35: kit pimo double whistle made of reed hunt" "Note: See Barrett's field cat in acc. envelope for fuller details.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Whistle, accession number 1-11940, described as Dance whistle; double; reed. Closed at one end with pitch; tied together with string and wire; pitch inserted at air hole; one reed has a crack.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Whistle, accession number 1-11940, described as Dance whistle; double; reed. Closed at one end with pitch; tied together with string and wire; pitch inserted at air hole; one reed has a crack.

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