Single bird bone tube, one hole. Pitch inside tube under hole. End closed with pitch. Ends cut and hole probably made with steel tools (hole appears to have been made with triangular file).
Donor:
John Preston Stanley, Philip Mills Jones, and Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Haupt Ranch, Sonoma County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Sonoma; Haupt Ranch
Culture or time period:
Kashia
Collector:
Philip Mills Jones
Collection date:
July 8-9, 1901
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Whistles
Function:
5.4 Secular and Religious Musical Instruments
Accession date:
August 1901
Context of use:
Whistle was probably used either in curing or other Maru ceremonies.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
length 14.5 centimeters and diameter 1.1 centimeters
Comment:
Materials: "For materials see Supplementary Catalogue 1, p. 64." Context of use: "Big Jose was a Yompta of the Maru from ca. 1880---." Photo: "X