Syrinx, vigo, of 7 stopped pipes, graduated, bound together at the upper end with 2 strips of reed and lashings of black thread and string.

Collection type: Object
Description: Syrinx, vigo, of 7 stopped pipes, graduated, bound together at the upper end with 2 strips of reed and lashings of black thread and string.
Geographical reference: Vanuatu
Oceania > Melanesia > Vanuatu; Banks Islands
Person: Field collector Robert Henry Codrington; Field collector Melanesian Mission; PRM source Robert Henry Codrington
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1916
Date collected: By 1916
Acquisition information: Donated: 08/1916
Materials and processes: Material Reed Plant, Material Yarn, Material String, Process Tied
Dimensions: Length: max 201 mm longest pipe, Length 89 mm shortest pipe, Width: max 84 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1920.100.92
Associated publications: Reference: Objects as insights : R. H. Codrington's ethnographic collections from Melanesia., Main author: Nick Stanley.; London, 2021, Page: 39, Page illustrated: 41, Notes: Pan pipes, of seven stepped pipes with strips of reed and lashings of black thread and string, Banks Islands

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