Flute
97-84-2489
From: North Dakota | Cannonball River
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 97-84-2489 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Sioux |
| Provenience | North Dakota | Cannonball River |
| Culture Area | Great Plains Culture Area |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Wood | Metal | Horn (animal part) |
| Description | Outer duct flute with stops. Wood flute made of two hollowed-out sections glued together. Metal tube for mouthpiece. Block of unusual shape with a "stepped triangle" on its proximal end. Bell made of animal horn. Four sound perforations toward the distal end. Five finger stops. |
| Length | 77 |
| Outside Diameter | 2.5 |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1997 |
| Other Number | L-84-2489 - Old Museum Number | 18489 - ANSP Number | I 868 - Gottschall Number |
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