Object Details
- Collection History
- Collected or purchased from local residents between 1944 and 1947 by amateur archaeologist Dr. Robert Ceough (1898-1947, born Albert J.C. Kretzmann, a professor of public speaking and theatre at the City College of New York); possibly bequeathed to the Hispanic American Society in New York City; donated to MAI in 1966 by the Hispanic American Society.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Tzotzil Maya
- Collector
- Dr. Richard Ceough (Albert J.C. Kretzmann), Non-Indian, 1898-1947
- Previous owner
- Hispanic Society of America
- Donor
- Hispanic Society of America
- Object Name
- Flute
- Media/Materials
- Wood
- Techniques
- Carved
- Object Type
- Music and Sound
