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3D Object Double Effigy Whistle, DCM 1027

About this Item

Title

  • Double Effigy Whistle, DCM 1027

Names

  • Anonymous, Central American Indian

Headings

  • -  Flute--Specimens

Genre

  • flutes

Notes

  • -  Views included in pictures of instrument: side view with face on right; side view with face on left
  • -  DCM ledger: "Guatemala."
  • -  Instrument type: Double Effigy Whistle
  • -  Materials: Pottery.
  • -  Pottery object with human face at one end and fanciful land or sea animal face with open mouth at other end, incorporating pachyderm-like trunk or nose folded upward and back over most of the object's length and then turning upward over the human effigy.
  • -  Key Holes System: One hole, possibly a fingerhole. However, as is, the instrument sounds no pitch at all.
  • -  Mark Maximum: No mark.
  • -  Condition: Random shrinkage cracks.
  • -  Provenance: N. E. Carter, Elkhorn, Wisconsin, 6 Nov. 1930.
  • -  Location: Case_02.
  • -  Record created through migration from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Database.

Medium

  • 1 musical instrument ; 25.6 x 15.2 x 9.7 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • ML30.4a

Source Collection

  • Holding of: Dayton C. Miller flute collection, 1880-2000 (bulk 1905-1941) DCM 1027

Repository

  • c-Music ML30.4a Dayton C. Miller flute collection, DCM 1027 (Case 02)

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2023866323

Online Format

  • image

Additional Metadata Formats

IIIF Presentation Manifest

Rights & Access

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Copyright Protected Items

Four full-size drawings of flutes DCM 0507, DCM 0615, DCM 0916, and DCM 1125 by Jean-François Beaudin, Québec, Canada. 2003. Please make written requests for permission for other uses to:

Jean-François Beaudin
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The quotation regarding Dr. Miller and his gold flute comes from an article by Robert S. Shankland, "Dayton Clarence Miller: Physics Across Fifty Years." American Journal of Physics 9(October 1941):273-283. LC call number: QC1.A47. It was reprinted here with permission from the American Journal of Physics 9(October 1941):278. Copyright 1941, American Association of Physics Teachers. Should you wish to quote from this article, please contact:

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The image of the Faun playing an aulos by Rea Irvin, Miller no. 57/G, comes from the cover of The New Yorker magazine, 14 March 1925. It is reproduced here without The New Yorker masthead as required by Condé Nast Publications, New York. Permission to reproduce the Faun only as a thumbnail-size image, and without the masthead, is Courtesy of the Irvin Estate. No reproduction without permission. For reproduction permission, please contact:

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Credit line: Dayton C. Miller Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress

"Dayton C. Miller, His Life, Work and Contributions as a Scientist and Organologist" is made available here with permission from the author, William J. Maynard. HTML version of this text

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Credit line: Dayton C. Miller Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress

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