Notched end-flute of bamboo, plain surface. Two fingerholes at distal end.

Collection type: Object
Description: Notched end-flute of bamboo, plain surface. Two fingerholes at distal end.
Geographical reference: Papua New Guinea
Oceania > Melanesia > Papua New Guinea; New Britain Bismarck Archipelago
Person: Field collector James Edge Partington; PRM source Henry Balfour
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1913
Date collected: By 1913
Acquisition information: Bequeathed: 1939
Materials and processes: Material Bamboo Plant, Process Perforated, Process Notched
Dimensions: Length: max 426 mm, Diameter: max 14 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1938.34.176
Research and responses: This is one of a number of items purchased by Henry Balfour from James Edge-Partington in 1913, presumably at the same time as the Museum purchased the collection retrospectively numbered as 1913.65. On page 87 of his account of Edge-Partington's career, Roger Neich notes that 'he did sell a significant selection of at least 24 items to A. W. Fuller and several other items including an Hawaiian feather cape to Henry Balfour representing the Pitt Rivers Museum'; see ‘James Edge-Partington (1854-1930): An Ethnologist of Independent Means’, by Roger Neich, in Records of the Auckland Museum, Vol. 46 (2009), pp. 57-110. (Photocopy in RDF: Biographies: Edge-Partington.) [JC 4 3 2010]