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Transverse flute

about 1925
Object PlacePapua New Guinea
Medium/TechniqueBamboo
DimensionsLength 46.4 cm, width 3.8 cm (Length 18 1/4 in., width 1 1/2 in.)
Credit LineHelen and Alice Colburn Fund
Accession number1984.292
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsMusical instruments
InscriptionsSmall glued-on label with typed number "1"
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)