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Clarinet playing (?)

Index card (music eth.): Aerophone Description: Three sections of tube, bound together like rafts, are inserted into an axially pierced fruit bowl (calabash?). The centre tube has five finger-holes, a lateral tube has two lateral finger-holes, the lower of which is sealed with black mass. The other lateral tube is closed at the upper end by a growth knot. The tubes protrude about 2cm into the fruit shell. The connection is sealed with a black mass. Ornaments on the fruit shell, in which coloured glass beads are embedded, and a cementing between the tubes are also made of the same material. The function of the instrument is unclear. It is probably not a double clarinet. The 3rd reed is a dummy! Length: 22.5 cm

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Huichol
Object type
musical instruments
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
IV B 12518 a-c

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    where
    Mexico
    who
    Huichol
  • Collecting
    who
    Julius Konietzko (1886 - 1952-04-27) - Former Possessors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Ethnology

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Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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