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Flute

Data Provider
Ethnologisches Museum Show original at data provider

Cataloguing data

Object type
musical instruments
Dimensions
Weight: 0,371 kg
Weight: 0,4 kg
Height: 7 cm
Width: 107 cm
Depth: 11,5 cm
Height: 8 cm
Depth: 107 cm
Width: 11 cm
Material/Technique
Bamboo, Rattan (Rotang, Rotan), Wet snails, Wood, Pigment
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
VI 40128

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    before 1912
    where
    Melanesia
    Northeast New Guinea
    Lower Sepik
    Papua New Guinea
  • Collecting
    who
    Thurnwald, Richard - Collectors
    Sepik-Expedition (Kaiserin-Augusta-Fluss Expedition)
  • Change of legal title:
    Acquisition
    Description
    Purchase from Sepik Expedition around 1912
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Oceania

Information about the record

Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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