Wind Instrument

P780B

From: Borneo | Dutch East Borneo | Mahakam River

Curatorial Section: Oceanian

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Object Number P780B
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Borneo | Dutch East Borneo | Mahakam River
Section Oceanian
Materials Bamboo | Gourd | Gutta-Percha (uncertain)
Description

Musical. Kaludi. Kaluri. "[The kaluri] consists of a bottle-shaped gourd with six hollow reed pipes set into the body of it; a finger-hole is cut in each pipe at such a place that the fingers of both hands while holding the instrument can cover all the holes.The middle reed is the longest, and is therefore the bass; it has no finger-hole, but its tone is subdued by a movable cap at the end; the neck of the gourd forms the mouth-piece. The music of a Kaluri somewhat resembles that of organ pipes, perhaps slightly nasal in timbre. . . ." (The Home-Life of Borneo Head-Hunters)

Length 82 cm
Width 28 cm
Credit Line Gift of Alfred C. Harrison Jr. and Dr. H. M. Hiller, 1899

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