Vessel flute

about 1930

Object PlacePapua New Guinea

Medium/TechniqueEarthenware

DimensionsLength 8.1 cm, width 6.8 cm, depth 3.0 cm (Length 3 3/16 in., width 2 11/16 in., depth 1 3/16 in.)

Credit LineHelen and Alice Colburn Fund

Accession number1984.289

On View

Not on view

ClassificationsMusical instruments

Collections

Musical Instruments

InscriptionsSmall glued-on label with typed "6" or "9"

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)