Double nose flute. [MJD 06/10/2014]

Collection type: Object
Description: Double nose flute. [MJD 06/10/2014]
Long description: Double nose-flute, made of twp lengths of cane tied together and levelled with black resin(?). Six fingerholes on each tube; blown at the end; two small cane lateral air-jets. Canes bound with string in three places; at bottom, at air hole and at head where the string is red. The tubes are incised with geometric patterns. [MJD 06/10/2014]
Geographical reference: India
Asia > Southern Asia > India; Assam Arunachal Pradesh
Cultural groups: Adi
Person: Field collector John Henry Hutton; PRM source John Henry Hutton
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1935
Date collected: By 1935
Acquisition information: Donated: 1935
Materials and processes: Material Bamboo Plant, Material String, Material Resin Plant, Process Perforated, Process Tied, Process Bound, Process Incised
Dimensions: Length: max 384 mm, Width: max 28 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1923.85.964
Research and responses: 'Finger-stops' are not an accurate way of describing the fingerholes; stop is an archaic and confusing term for fingerhole that is no longer used [HLR 26/1/2005].

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