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- Ukraine
- sopilka (flute), late 1800s–1989
- Where object was made: Ukraine (former Soviet Union)
- linden wood?, varnish, carving, burning
- Object Length/Diameter: 40 x 1 cm
Object Length/Diameter: 15 3/4 x 3/8 in - Betty Austin Hensley Flutes of the World
- Not on display
- 2007.0686
- Ukraine
- Open page with bookmarkable url
- Multimedia
- Description
- Inscriptions/Signature
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This cylindrical flute is made of a very light colored wood. It has a semicircular hole at one end with a rectangular whistle hole. The mouthpiece end is left bare. The rest of the flute is covered with a colorless varnish. Three bands of diamonds with small circles are burned, one at either end and one above the first of six fingerholes. A flower is burned between each fingerhole. A flower, two sets of ovoids, and a diamond at top and bottom are burned between the first band and the band separating the fingerhole segment.