A Kwakiutl ceremonial double whistle
5204
Property from the Muchnick Milliren Collection
A Kwakiutl ceremonial double whistle
For the Hamatsa dance society, consisting of two single tube whistles - one high-pitched, the other deep and low - joined at the mouth and lashed together with commercial and animal sinew twine.
length 11 3/4in
Estimate:
US$ 1,000 - 1,500
£640 - 960
€750 - 1,100

Footnotes

  • Provenance:
    Purchased from Ramona Morris American Indian Art, Woodside, CA, February 1997

Category: Ethnographic Art / Native American

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