End-blown flute
Date1850-1915 ca.
Place MadeUkraine, Europe
Serial No.none
SignednoneMarkingsThe instrument has an intergrally-carved snake to the instrument that is wrapping around the diameter of the tube from about two inches at the open end of the instrument to around four inches below the embouchure slit.
DescriptionEnd-blown with internal duct. Wood body and block. Painted.
DimensionsOverall length: 864 mm
ProvenanceArne B. Larson Collection, Vermillion, South Dakota, 1979.
Published ReferencesThomas E. Cross, Instruments of Burma, India, Nepal, Thailand, and Tibet, SMM Catalog, Vol. II (1982), p. 7.
Thomas E. Cross, Instruments of Burma, India, Nepal, Thailand, and Tibet in theCollections of the Shrine to Music Museum, MM Thesis, University of South Dakota, 1983, p. 15, plate IV.
André P. Larson, The National Music Museum: A Pictorial Souvenir (Vermillion: National Music Museum, 1988), p. 29.
Credit LineArne B. Larson Collection, 1979
Object number01193
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