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Object Number 34-90-20/3613
Display Title Wooden flute
Descriptions
Inventory Description Flute, carved wood, metal mouthpiece, string-wrapped, wood ring, resin
Classification
  • Woodwind
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Quiché
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Central America / Guatemala / Totonicapan / <County> / Totonicapan
Dimensions Overall: 36.2 x 4 x 4.1 cm (14 1/4 x 1 9/16 x 1 5/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 34-90-20/3613 & Peabody\ A-5134

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