Reed flageolet, or flute a bec.

Collection type: Object
Description: Reed flageolet, or flute a bec.
Long description: Holes 6:1 all burnt in. Oblong window, no decoration. Scratch marks around reed to mark thumbhole. Upper surface stripped for fingerholes and lower for the thumbhole only. Oblong shape stripped away. Slightly curved in shape - ?warped. [LM-S 24/1/2020]
Geographical reference: Cyprus
Asia > Western Asia > Cyprus; Karavas
Cultural groups: Cypriot
Person: Field collector Leonard Halford Dudley Buxton; PRM source Leonard Halford Dudley Buxton
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1914
Date collected: By 1914
Acquisition information: Donated: 11/1914
Materials and processes: Material Reed Plant, Process Perforated, Process Burnt, Process Scraped Carved
Dimensions: Length: max 256 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1914.53.3
Associated publications: The Museum's collection of Cypriot ethnography is listed in catalogue form in Cypriot Ethnography Collections in British Museums, by Eleni Papademetriou (Nicosia: Cultural Services, Ministry of Education and Culture, 2000), pp. 126-33. This item is listed (with 1914.53.2) on page 132 as nos. 28-29: '28-29. Reed frangeolet [sic] or flute. Kyrenia - Karavas. Donated by K. H. Dudley Buxton, Nov. 1914.... Another [1914.53.2] similar.' [JC 5 7 2001]