Bugle-flute "putorino" · New Zealand, Maori · ID: 3036667
sold
EUR 2,400
Size
L: 54 cm
L: 21.3 inch
Description
wood, dark brown patina, fine flax binding, face (“wheku”) at the blowing end and a further face carved around a central hole, both with haliotis-shell eyes, slightly dam., abrasion of paint;
this instrument could be played at either end, either as a flute or a bugle. Traditional information would suggest that these were used more for signalling when a chief was returning to a village than for making music.
Comparing literature
Starzecka, Dorota C., Taonga Maori in the British Museum, London 2010, ill. 505 ff.