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Whistle
Museum number:
1-13984
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010013984
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:
length 11.6 centimeters and width 1.7 centimeters
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