Whistle

Museum number:
1-13983
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
100 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.334
Description:
Reed, double. Two reeds lashed together with sinew, single hole at each center, blob of pitch at center bottom of each hole. Twisted fiber carrying handle cord.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Lake County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Lake
Culture or time period:
Pomo
Collector:
Charles P. Wilcomb
Collection date:
1898-1902
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Whistles
Function:
5.4 Secular and Religious Musical Instruments
Accession date:
1908
Context of use:
Dance whistle.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
length 17.7 centimeters and width 2.6 centimeters
Comment:
Photo: 15-4802 See 1-11 Pomo
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Whistle, accession number 1-13983, described as Reed, double. Two reeds lashed together with sinew, single hole at each center, blob of pitch at center bottom of each hole. Twisted fiber carrying handle cord.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Whistle, accession number 1-13983, described as Reed, double. Two reeds lashed together with sinew, single hole at each center, blob of pitch at center bottom of each hole. Twisted fiber carrying handle cord.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Whistle, accession number 1-13983, described as Reed, double. Two reeds lashed together with sinew, single hole at each center, blob of pitch at center bottom of each hole. Twisted fiber carrying handle cord.

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