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Description: | A notched flute, seemingly adapted to other uses: of mid-brown hollow wood, with four large widely spaced finger-holes: most of the tube covered with leather, stitched on, brown at the ends and vellum-coloured in the middle, the leather at the top obstructing the notch: a carrying loop of leather. In good condition.
Notched flute. A bamboo tube open at both ends, the central section covered with brown leather, which is stitched in place along an irregular seam at the back. Four large widely spaced finger holes, two of which are positioned on the leather covered section and the other two beneath. The upper rim has a rectangular notch cut into the front edge. Immediately below this is another leather band, which is slightly darker in colour and has a strap attached. A dogtooth design is cut into the wood on the front of the instrument in the small gap between the two leather strips. The bell is choked by an inserted disc of gourd with a smaller circle cut in the middle. | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Subjects: | bamboo hide vertical flutes notched flutes stitching Tiv leather | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-14255 |
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