flute
- Museum number
- Oc1906,1013.1305
- Description
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Length of hollow red-brown reed with two small circular perforations - finger holes - in side near nodal top, which has small circular perforation. Three incised lines at centre on opposing side to finger holes, which have dark ring, likely from pyroincision, with larger faded ring from use-wear.
- Production date
- 19thC-20thC(early)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 1.60 centimetres
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Length: 67.60 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- BM register notes: '[6976A] RAUIAGOTA see catalogue'. Entry 6976A in William Cooke Daniels' Tubetube catalogue reads: 'IGO, a flute. Made from a reed of the same name and imported from DUAU, whence most and possibly all of the instruments are bought ready-made. The IGO has five notes in each of the two octaves and is played only by men, though by no means all men can play it. For mode of playing v. negative 131G (211. 156)'. Comment by Heather Donoghue, Ph.D candidate, UEA, 2020.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1906
- Acquisition notes
- Acquired during the Daniels Ethnographical Expedition to British New Guinea 1903-1904.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1906,1013.1305
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous Number: 6976A (Cooke Daniels Number)
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Miscellaneous number: Oc1906,1013.1304-1305 (Previous group record)