Context (CMS Context)
(Bio) From the collection of Dr. William Halse Rivers Rivers
Event Date 29/1/2008
Author: maa

Description (CMS Description)
Catalogue card reads for A-D: “4 bamboo flutes.”
Event Date 29/1/2008
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
Catalogue card 1 reads [handwritten in black ink:] 'Z 256. a-d. ? Four bamboo flutes, one with roughly inscribed ship.'; [later addition handwritten in pencil:] 'N. Georgia.'

Catalogue card 2 reads [handwritten in black ball point:] 'Z 256 A-D ?SOLOMON ISLANDS 4 Bamboo flutes Rivers Colln'.
Event Date 24/3/2013
Author: Heather Donoghue

Description (CMS Description)
Bamboo flute made from a piece of bamboo sealed at both ends by a node. The top has a short section of bamboo above the node, which has been divided in half. One half is cut into a leaf shape and the other half is square. Four holes have been cut through the bamboo: one in the base, one on the shaft near the base and two more along the shaft near the top. The topmost hole is the widest and forms the mouthpiece. An incised drawing of a sailing ship with a pattern of diagonal lines on the sail occurs halfway down the shaft, aligned horizontally. [Heather Donoghue 27.06.2012]
Event Date 24/3/2013
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
An old display label found in the archives (OA2/1/13) reads: 'Flutes / Eddystone Isl. / Z 256, C-D.'
Event Date 2/11/2016
Author: Lucie Carreau