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Whistle
This instrument was collected in the field by Percy Horace Gordon and Hannah Powell-Cotton. It is an end-blown whistle ("lapilo") made from a bushbuck horn, in which the player blows against the larger open end of the horn. This end has two lumps of a dark resin mixture to assist with the proper embouchure to produce sound, and is wrapped in leather. There are three iron alloy rings and a leather strap attached to two of these rings.
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1925–33 - Maker:
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Powell-Cotton Museum - Inventory number:
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Logoforok, Eastern Equatoria (state), South Sudan - Hornbostel-Sachs classification:421.111.11 Open single end-blown flutes without fingerholes
- Culture:Lango
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- Hornbostel-Sachs category:421.111.11 Open single end-blown flutes without fingerholes
- Repository:Powell-Cotton Museum
- Measurements:Length: 145mm