Triple pigeon-whistle of wood, for fastening to the tail feathers of pigeons. [FB 10/10/2017]

Collection type: Object
Description: Triple pigeon-whistle of wood, for fastening to the tail feathers of pigeons. [FB 10/10/2017]
Long description: Triple pigeon-whistle of wood, for fastening to the tail feathers of pigeons. The whistle has a tang to attach to the bird and three whistles with decoratively carved caps with central slit. [FB 10/10/2017]
Geographical reference: Indonesia
Asia > South-eastern Asia > Indonesia; Java
Person: Field collector Unknown Collector; PRM source Colonial Institute Amsterdam
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1927
Date collected: By 1927
Acquisition information: Exchanged: 1927
Materials and processes: Material Wood Plant, Material Resin Plant, Process Carpentered, Process Carved, Process Perforated
Dimensions: Width: max 27 mm, Height: max 50 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1927.68.3
Research and responses: This whistle was studied by Nathan Mann and Pete Petravicius on 1 November 2013. Pete noted that is it shaped like a church organ pipe. Indonesian whistles in recycled tin are starkly different, colourful updated versions of the originals. Modern ones are decorative and don't sound as good. Nathan blew from a distance and it produced a high pitch sound - even more so than others. It has small chambers and it fine and delicate. [MJD 07/11/2013]

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