Flute

Bamboo flute with incised/carved designed, then smoked to create a brown color in the incision. Design is geometric, with patterns of triangles (with concave arcs forming the short sides of the triangles), curves and dots. Triangular notch carved near mouth of flute, 23mm deep. Two drilled holes near the playing end of the flute, spaced 90mm apart. The end of the flute is "knocked" and has a double projections from the end. These projections measure 180mm in length.

"Design etched on, of vertical triangles, on above the other, in between these are scallops. Flute first carved and then smoked. Collected 1980-1984." [ethnology card]