Vessel flute

about 1930

Object PlacePapua New Guinea

Medium/TechniqueEarthenware

DimensionsLength 9.5 cm, width 7.4 cm, depth 4 cm (Length 3 3/4 in., width 2 15/16 in., depth 1 9/16 in.)

Credit LineHelen and Alice Colburn Fund

Accession number1984.288

On View

Not on view

ClassificationsMusical instruments

Collections

Musical Instruments

ProvenanceBefore 1979, private collection of New Guinea material compiled about 1930, New York; about 1979, Lillian Caplin, Center for Musical Antiquities, New York; before 1984, sold by Caplin to Douglas Deihl, Northampton, Massachusetts; 1984, sold by Deihl to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 13, 1984)