Flute

Museum number:
9-12072
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
79 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.2962
Description:
Flute, bamboo; red-brown stained bamboo flute with 5 stops; 2 spurs; length 81 cm.
Donor:
Thilipa Muthicane
Collection place:
Tamil Nadu, South India
Verbatim coll. place:
India, S.India, Tamilnadu, Octagamundi, Kandal Mand; Toda
Culture or time period:
Toda people
Collector:
Niloufer Hirschmann Ichaporia
Collection date:
August 4, 1972
Materials:
Bamboo (material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Flutes (aerophones)
Function:
5.4 Secular and Religious Musical Instruments
Accession date:
1972
Context of use:
Held sideways when played. Only musical instrument of the Toda tribe. Appears to used for personal pleasure. T. Muthicane is chief of the Toda mandor settlement at Kandal..."Sounds like a buffalo" (N.H.)---->
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Loans:
S1977-1978 #2: Music Library (UC Berkeley) (July 27, 1977–October 6, 1977)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Flute, accession number 9-12072, described as Flute, bamboo; red-brown stained bamboo flute with 5 stops; 2 spurs; length 81 cm.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Flute, accession number 9-12072, described as Flute, bamboo; red-brown stained bamboo flute with 5 stops; 2 spurs; length 81 cm.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Flute, accession number 9-12072, described as Flute, bamboo; red-brown stained bamboo flute with 5 stops; 2 spurs; length 81 cm.

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