Carved wooden flute with six holes simply decorated with brass and silver coloured metal bands

Item

Title

Carved wooden flute with six holes simply decorated with brass and silver coloured metal bands

Creator

Creator Unrecorded

Subject

Flute
Music

Description

Carved wooden flute, similar in shape to a recorder, with six holes. It is simply decorated with two carved ridges near the mouthpiece and two flat silver coloured metal bands, a third of the way down, followed by a thicker brass coloured metal band, and a second brass coloured band near the bottom of the instrument.

Publisher

Making African Connections

Date

c.1930

Type

PhysicalObject

Format

Wood; Plant
Carved
Max L = 435 mm Max Diam = 35 mm

Identifier

ETH.ANG3.543
A37/543

Source

Antoinette and Diana Powell-Cotton
1937

Space/Place

Angola
Africa

Rights

© The Powell-Cotton Trust