Flute

Museum number:

11-37789a,b

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Accession number:

Acc.1915

Description:

flute, sacred, and flute ornament; flute is long bamboo shaft decorated at four places on length with plaited rattan; cassowary feathers worked into rattan binding at one end; ornament is carved wood in shape of bird; flute is cracked; a) flute, b) ornament; played ritually in the haus tamabrah; played in pairs, with alternating tones; this specimen is half of a pair, of which the other half is 11-37788ab

Donor:

Ellsworth La Boyteaux and Mrs. Ellsworth La Boyteaux

Collection place:

Timbunke, Middle Sepik River, Papua New Guinea

Collector:

Bruce D. Lawes

Materials:

Bamboo (material)

Taxon:

Casuarius

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Flutes (aerophones) and Plaited weaving

Function:

5.4 Secular and Religious Musical Instruments

Accession date:

1964

Department:

Oceania