Flute

Note: The following text is taken from a 19th-century collection catalog and, in its language and perspective, partially reflects colonial thought patterns. We present the text in its original version to make the collection's history transparent and promote a critical examination of the colonial legacy. Certain terms and formulations may be perceived as problematic today. A 2009 research project concluded that most descriptions are factually correct and still usable; only a few details were found to be inaccurate or incorrect. The results of this project were published in the following collection catalog: khm-wmw-tm-library.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1457155265"459 - 460. Whistles - "Atiting-ribabba"A small kind of children's trumpet made from a thin piece of bamboo, whose mouth piece is made from a split rice stalk. At the bottom end there is a trumpet-shaped appendage made from a lontar leaf which has been rolled into a spiral. At one side of the tube there are openings for the fingers. When it is blown the instrument produces a tone like that from a child's trumpet. It is very popular with the young people especially in the time of the rice harvest throughout the whole Indian Archipelago."Translation of: Czurda, F. A. J. (1883). Catalog mit Erklärungen der Etnografischen Privatsammlung des Dr. F. A. J. Czurda in Postelberg (Böhmen). (p. 109). Wien, Wilhelm Braumüller