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Pitt Rivers Museum

1938.34.304

Tin whistle, shaped like a boat. A kazoo. [RR 9/1/2020]


1938.34.304

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Collection type
Object
Description
Tin whistle, shaped like a boat. A kazoo. [RR 9/1/2020]
Cultural groups
European
Person
Maker British W Made
Field collector Henry Balfour
PRM source Henry Balfour
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1939
Date collected
By 1939
Acquisition information
Bequeathed: 1939
Materials and processes
Material Tin Metal, Process Machine-made
Dimensions
Length: max 120 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1938.34.304
Research and responses

This tin whistle is as likely to have been used in England as in any other part of the British Isles and I have therefore included it in the English ethnography project [AP 25/07/2006]

Search terms: Music, Navigation, Musical Instrument, Voice Disguiser, Flute, Free Reed