Object Details
- Notes
- Courting flute (Domba). Split section of cedar, hollowed and rejoined with pitch, tied with buckskin thongs, ends painted yellow with dark zigzag. Finely carved stop in geometric form. 19" (48 cm). Records: Illustrated in: USNM-AR 1896, 575, fig. 215; USNM-AR 1900, 442, pl. 4, fig. 2; Ewers 1986: 165. (C).
- Recorded in the original accession file as: 1 Flute, Kiowa 1888, $1.65
- Record Last Modified
- 11 Aug 2021
- Specimen Count
- 1
- Data Source
- NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
- Collector
- Capt. Richard H. Pratt
- Donor Name
- Capt. Richard H. Pratt
- Accession Date
- 28 Mar 1892
- Object Type
- Flute
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