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End-blown flute
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End-blown flute

Dateabout 1925
Object PlacePossibly Chad
Medium/TechniqueWood, plant fiber
DimensionsLength 31.2 cm, width 3.4 cm (Length 12 5/16 in., width 1 5/16 in.)
Credit LineHelen and Alice Colburn Fund
Accession number1984.297
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ClassificationsMusical instruments
DescriptionSlender conical body of wood stained/painted black with beveled embouchure end. Narrow end pierced longitudinally by small hole into bore and tip steeply cut away along one side. Integral eyelet near embouchure end with long carrying cord of twined plant fiber. ProvenanceAbout 1925, collected in Chad by a missionary; before 1984, sold by a pawn broker as part of a collection, Albuquerque, New Mexico, to Douglas Deihl, Northampton; 1984, sold by Deihl to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 13, 1984)