DCM 0843: Anonymous, North American Indian Whistle(?)
Summary
DCM ledger: "American Indian, Sacramento Co., California." This instrument has a lateral, oval, recessed hole, which may have served any of 3 functions; the upper end is open and, although it fails, may have been intended to direct air to the lower edge of the oval hole, and thus make it a vertical whistle. More likely, if a flute of any sort, it would be a transverse flute, thereby requiring the open end to be closed. A third possibility is that it is a side blown lip reed signal horn, also requiring the upper end to be closed.
Instrument type: Whistle(?)
Medium: Bone.; 24.9 cm.
Key Holes System: 0 holes.
Mark Maximum: No mark.
Provenance: N. E. Carter, Elkhorn, Wisconsin, 6 Apr. 1929.
The Dayton C. Miller collection in the Library of Congress, contains nearly 1,700 flutes and other wind instruments, statuary, iconography, books, music, trade catalogs, tutors, patents, and other materials mostly related to the flute. It includes both Western and non-Western examples of flutes from around the world, with at least 460 European and American instrument makers represented. Items in the collection date from the 16th to the 20th century.
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