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Duct flute
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Duct flute

probably after A.D. 1600
Object PlacePanama
Medium/TechniquePelican (?) bone
DimensionsLength 21.7 cm, width 1.4 cm (Length 8 9/16 in., width 9/16 in.)
Credit LineHelen and Alice Colburn Fund
Accession number1984.376
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsMusical instruments
Provenance1980, sold by a German collector, Quito, Ecuador, to Douglas Deihl, Northampton, Massachusetts; 1984, sold by Deihl to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 13, 1984); June 19, 2013, deaccessioned by the MFA for sale through Skinner Auctions, Boston.