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1934.8.106.2

Cleaning feather for wooden end-flute with four fingerholes

1934.8.106.2

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Collection type
Object
Description
Cleaning feather for wooden end-flute with four fingerholes
Long description
Cleaning feather for wooden end-flute with four fingerholes. For the end-flute see [1934.8.106 .1]. [AB 3/2/2020]
Geographical reference
South Sudan
Africa > Eastern Africa > South Sudan
Lakes Warab Luklun
Cultural groups
Rumbek Jur
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1933
Date collected
13th May 1933
Acquisition information
Donated: 1934
Materials and processes
Material Wood Plant, Material Bird Feather, Process Perforated, Process Hollowed, Process Carved
Dimensions
Length: max 170 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1934.8.106.2 Other numbers: 2486
Research and responses

Luklun would appear to be located in either the El Buheyrat or Warab districts of the southern Sudan; this location suggests that the cultural group involved are Rumbek Jur. Powell-Cotton made ethnographic films during his 1932-3 shooting expedition to southern Sudan; footage included a staged fight between a Dinka and Jur, each armed with a 'knobkerry and heavy parrying shield' and a female Jur potter at work (see the description in Mrs Powell Cotton, "Village Handicrafts in the Sudan", Man 34 (112), pp 90-91) [RTS 12/12/2003].

The term 'flute' is preferred to 'whistle' for this type of object [HLR 14/1/2005]

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