Whistle
Musical Horn
Pipe
NA8511
From: United States of America | Alaska | Sitka
Curatorial Section: American
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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