Object class: Musical instruments / Year collected: [Missing] / Donor: Mrs. Ellsworth La Boyteaux - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

Start Over Object class Musical instruments Year collected [Missing] Donor Mrs. Ellsworth La Boyteaux

Hearst Museum object titled Drum, accession number 11-37864, no description available.

Hearst Museum object titled Drum, accession number 11-37865, no description available.

Hearst Museum object titled Flute, accession number 11-37842, described as Flute, spirit voice; hollowed inner shell of bagwi fruit has one blowhole perforated through top; surface all covered with curvilinear designs; some lime as coloring in incised areas; cracked; blown by initiated men to warn women and uninitiated boys to leave the village while the initiates conduct ceremonies.

Hearst Museum object titled Flute, accession number 11-37788a,b, described as flute, sacred, and flute ornament; flute is long bamboo shaft decorated at five places on length with plaited rattan; badly cracked; ornament is carved wood in shape of bird, blackened by charring; a) flute, b) ornament; played ritually in the haus tamabrah; played in pairs, with alternating tones; this specimen is half of a pair, of which the other half is 11-37789ab

Hearst Museum object titled Flute, accession number 11-37789a, no description available.

Hearst Museum object titled Flute, accession number 11-37788a, no description available.

Hearst Museum object titled Flute, accession number 11-37789a,b, described as flute, sacred, and flute ornament; flute is long bamboo shaft decorated at four places on length with plaited rattan; cassowary feathers worked into rattan binding at one end; ornament is carved wood in shape of bird; flute is cracked; a) flute, b) ornament; played ritually in the haus tamabrah; played in pairs, with alternating tones; this specimen is half of a pair, of which the other half is 11-37788ab

Hearst Museum object titled Flute, accession number 11-37843, described as Flute, spirit-voice; hollowed inner shell of a coconut-like fruit has one blowhole, one finger stop perforated through sides; surface covered overall with curvilinear designs incised; extensive cracking; blown by initiated men to warn women and uninitiated boys to leave the village while the initiates conduct ceremonies.

Hearst Museum object titled Gong beater, accession number 11-37692, described as beater, carved wood, for log slit gong; handle end is keeled and knobbed with two eye-like bulges

Hearst Museum object titled Gong beater, accession number 11-37688, described as beater, carved wood, for log slit gong; handle end is keeled and knobbed with two eye-like bulges; white pigment in excised areas of design