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FROM CARD FOR 20689-92 : "2 CHAMBERS. #20689 - CEREMONIAL TRUMPET, TSIMSHIAN, FT. SIMPSON, B.C.-ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1888; PL. 61, FIG. 324; P. 330. ILLUS. IN USNM REPT., 1896; PL. 72, FIG. 3; P. 564....NO. 20689 SENT AS EXCHANGE TO F. W. GALPIN HATFIELD VICARAGE, HARLOW ESSEX, NOV. 25, 1907."FROM SECOND CARD: "DOUBLE DOUBLE-REED INSTRUMENT. AN OVAL BLOCK OF WOOD, SOMETHING OF THE FORM OF A PADDLE, SPLIT LONGITUDINALLY THROUGH ITS MAJOR AXIS. THE HALVES ARE EXCAVATED TO FORM TWO AIR PASSAGES STARTING FROM LOWER END AND ENDING IN ONE BEFORE IT REACHES THE TOP. IN EACH OF THE TWO AIR PASSAGES IS PACKED A DOUBLE REED MADE OF WOOD. THE HALVES ARE BROUGHT TOGETHER AND LASHED WITH FOUR BANDS OF SPRUCE ROOT. SEE WILSON'S PREHISTORIC ART, PP. 565 AND PL. 72, FIG. 3. ALSO U.S.M. REPORT, 1888, PL. LXI, FIG. 324."Ian Reid (Heiltsuk) of the delegation from Bella Bella, Bella Coola and Rivers Inlet communities of British Columbia made the following comments during the Recovering Voices Community Research Visit May 20th - 24th, 2013. It looks to be a root strapping. There are a great variety of whistles because there's a different sound for every spirit or being that was imitated. When we impersonated the supernatural they all didn't sound the same. It is held together by tree sap, it's like fiberglass when you use it; it's really hard.