flute
- Museum number
- Am.5004
- Description
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Flute made of wood, leather, lead.
- Production date
- 1868 (before)
- Dimensions
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Height: 60 centimetres
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Width: 4 centimetres
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Depth: 6 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Object marked and labelled NWC.36 in error. Attached tag "Plains, not NWC, could it have been labelled erroneously years ago?". King (1981, p.30) notes that object was wrongly included in Cook-Banks collection Slips.
Purchased for Christy Collection from Peter Street Museum, Manchester, 7.9.1868. Presented to Manchester Museum by Mister Murgatroyd.
Christy Slip "North American Indians". Pencilled on flute "Flute of the Winnebagos". Attached tag "Plains".
C = King, J.C.H. (1981),p.30.
see Rayna Green (ed) `The British Museum Encyclopaedia of Native North America' British Museum Press, 1999
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am.5004
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Am1868C1.5004 (old CDMS no.)
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Miscellaneous number: NWC.36 (Cook-Banks number, in error)