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- Toradja peoples
- flute, late 1800s–1992
- Where object was made: Sulawesi Province, Indonesia
- bamboo, pigment, incising, burning
- Object Length/Diameter: 37.5 x 2 cm
Object Length/Diameter: 14 3/4 x 3/4 in - Betty Austin Hensley Flutes of the World
- Not on display
- 2007.0733
- Toradja peoples
- Open page with bookmarkable url
- Multimedia
- Description
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This is a bamboo flute with six fingerholes. It is decorated with bands of burning and bands of small triangles rubbed with red and larger triangles rubbed with black. There is a band of opposing black triangles between the mouthpiece and the first fingerhole.