Whistle

Musical Horn

Pipe

NA8511

From: United States of America | Alaska | Sitka

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number NA8511
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Tlingit
Provenience United States of America | Alaska | Sitka
Culture Area Northwest Coast Culture Area
Locus Sitka Kaagwaantaan Clan | Eagle's Nest House
Section American
Materials Wood | Bark | Resin (material) | Reed (plant)
Description

Performer's whistle or musical horn made from wood. Made from a hollowed out, wooden cylinder split in half. Halves are joined with plant fiber wrappings in four places. Thins around the middle and toward the mouthpiece or head end.

Length 41 cm
Width 7 cm
Credit Line Wanamaker Expedition to the Northwest Coast; Louis Shotridge, 1918
Other Number PE1 - Other Number

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