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Object Number 99-12-70/53539
Display Title Nose flute
Descriptions
Inventory Description Flute, bamboo, pyrographic designs, braided fiber ring, cracked
Classification
  • Woodwind
Department Ethnographic
Date before 1899
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Tonga
Materials Bamboo
Dimensions Overall: 47 x 3.6 x 3.6 cm (18 1/2 x 1 7/16 x 1 7/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 53539
Credit Line Gift of the Heirs of David Kimball, 1899
Provenance
Provenance Boston Museum
Donor David P. Kimball
Donor Augusta K. Horton
Donor L. Cushing Kimball

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