- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Whistle for calling duiker antelopes
- Geographical reference
- Cultural groups
- Chokwe
- Person
- Field collector Antoinette Powell-Cotton
- Field collector Mrs L.S. Tucker
- PRM source Antoinette Powell-Cotton
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1937
- Date collected
- ?1936-37
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1938
- Materials and processes
- Material Reed Plant, Process Carved
- Dimensions
- Length: max 120 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1938.22.14
Search terms: Music, Hunting, Musical Instrument, Hunting accessory, Single Reed
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