Photo of DCM 1014: Anonymous Whistle - Public domain dedication
Summary
The upper animal horn and ivory elements screw into the lower animal horn element and appear to have been the upper decorative pommel from a walking cane.
Instrument type: Whistle
Medium: Carved ivory, animal horn.; 11.6 cm.
Mark Maximum: No mark.
Provenance: N. E. Carter, Elkhorn, Wisconsin, 2 Oct. 1930.
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.
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