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Double duct whistle
Native American
late 19th century
Object Place: British Columbia, Canada, Vancouver Island
Medium/Technique
Red cedar, spruce root
Dimensions
Length 26.3 cm, width 8.5 cm, thickness 3.5 cm (Length 10 3/8 in., width 3 3/8 in., thickness 1 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Leslie Lindsey Mason Collection
Accession Number17.2205
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsMusical Instruments
ClassificationsMusical instruments – Aerophones
DescriptionTwo cylindrical pipes (of oval cross-section) bound to each other with sinew at proximal end and center. Each whistle constructed of two hollowed out halves of red cedar (?), bound with strips of cedar bark near distal ends and at centers. Distal ends closed. Seams smeared with pitch. U-shaped window in one pipe and rectangular window in other pipe. Lozenge-shaped embouchure hole in each pipe. Sounds pitches of e'-flat and e'.
ProvenanceFrancis W. Galpin (b. 1858 - d. 1945), Hatfield Regis, England; 1916, sold by Francis W. Galpin to William Lindsey (b. 1858 - d. 1922), Boston; 1916, gift of William Lindsey to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 5, 1916)