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Whithorn
19th century
Object Place: England
Medium/Technique
Willow bark
Dimensions
Length 37.5 cm, bell diameter 5.3 cm (Length 14 3/4 in., bell diameter 2 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Leslie Lindsey Mason Collection
Accession Number17.1897
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsMusical Instruments
ClassificationsMusical instruments – Aerophones
DescriptionRustic reed pipe. Conical tube formed of willow bark twisted when green and fastened together with white thorn prickers. A double reed of soft willow bark.
ProvenanceBefore 1900, used in England by villagers during the Whit-Monday hunt, Oxfordshire; by 1916, acquired by Francis W. Galpin (1858-1945), Hatfield Regis, England; 1916, sold by Galpin to William Lindsey (1858-1922), Boston, Massachusetts; 1916, gift of William Lindsey, in memory of his daughter, Leslie Lindsey Mason, to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 5, 1916)