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Whistle
Museum number:
1-13983
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010013983
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
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