Musical Instruments - DCM 0436: Anonymous Notched Flute

See DCM 433. DCM ledger: "Flute was badly broken in the mail."
Instrument type: Notched Flute
Medium: Bamboo, thin-walled.; 65.4 cm.
Key Holes System: 0/3 holes.
Mark Maximum: No mark.
Provenance: Clarence Elkin, North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Sept. 1924.

The Dayton C. Miller collection in the Library of Congress, contains nearly 1,700 flutes and other wind instruments, statuary, iconography, books, music, trade catalogs, tutors, patents, and other materials mostly related to the flute. It includes both Western and non-Western examples of flutes from around the world, with at least 460 European and American instrument makers represented. Items in the collection date from the 16th to the 20th century.