Flute
Usage Conditions Apply
- Culture/People
- Oklahoma Seminole
- Previous owner
- Big Tom (unknown surname), Oklahoma Seminole
- Collector
- Chief William M. Skye (Bill Skye), Peoria, 1868-1923
- Hope M. Fulbright, Non-Indian, 1876-1949
- Mark Raymond Harrington (M. R. Harrington/MRH), Non-Indian, 1882-1971
- Object Name
- Flute
- Media/Materials
- Reed, wood
- Techniques
- Carved
- Object Type
- Music and Sound
- Native Term
- fi po'
- Place
- Oklahoma; USA
- Collection History
- Collected from Big Tom (Oklahoma Seminole) in 1909 by anthropologist Mark Raymond Harrington (1882-1971, MAI staff member), assisted by Chief William M. Skye (Peoria, 1868-1923) and Hope M. Fulbright (1879-1949), during fieldwork sponsored by George Heye.
- Catalog Number
- 2/4754
- Barcode
- 024754.000
- See related items
- Oklahoma Seminole
- Music and Sound
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Contact Us
- Have a concern, a correction, or something to add? Contact us: https://nmai.si.edu/collections-statement