Whistle

Museum number:
1-13984
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
101 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.334
Description:
Bone, double. Two curved bones lashed together with cotton twine and sinew, single finger hole at centers. Distal end stopped with resin. Twisted cotton twine carrying handle.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Mendocino County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Mendocino
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:
width 1.7 centimeters and length 11.6 centimeters
Comment:
Photo: 15-4802 See 1-11 Pomo
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Whistle, accession number 1-13984, described as Bone, double. Two curved bones lashed together with cotton twine and sinew, single finger hole at centers. Distal end stopped with resin. Twisted cotton twine carrying handle.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Whistle, accession number 1-13984, described as Bone, double. Two curved bones lashed together with cotton twine and sinew, single finger hole at centers. Distal end stopped with resin. Twisted cotton twine carrying handle.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Whistle, accession number 1-13984, described as Bone, double. Two curved bones lashed together with cotton twine and sinew, single finger hole at centers. Distal end stopped with resin. Twisted cotton twine carrying handle.

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