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Flute for "courtship" (formerly known as the "war flute")

Data Provider
Ethnologisches Museum Show original at data provider

Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Sioux
Object type
musical instruments
Dimensions
Length: 55,5 cm
Width: 3 cm
Depth: 5 cm
Weight: 2 kg
Width: 8 cm
Material/Technique
Wood, Pigment, Textile
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
IV B 661

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    where
    United States (USA)
    Plains and prairie
    who
    Sioux
  • Collecting
    who
    Alexander van der Horck - Collectors
  • Change of legal title:
    Acquisition
    Description
    Access 1878
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Ethnology

Information about the record

Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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