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FROM CARD: "5 CHAMBERED. MADE BY 6 STRIPS OF WOOD BEING HOLLOWED OUT TO FORM THE CHAMBERS. "AN OLD LABEL SAYS THAT IN EACH CHAMBER A PIECE OF FABRIC WAS STRETCHED." SENT AS EXCHANGE TO F. W. GALPIN. HATFIELD VICARAGE, HARLOW, ESSEX. NOV. 25, 1907. 6/3/54 IT APPEARS AS THOUGH THE ABOVE EXCHANGE DESIGNATION WAS NOT CORRECT BECAUSE A SPECIMEN BEARING THIS NO. IS STILL IN THE COLLECTION AT THIS DATE.-R. ELDER. ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1888; PL. 57, FIG. 301; P. 330; ALSO IN REPT., 1896, PL. 71, FIG. 3; P. 564." FROM SECOND CARD: "A WOOD WIND REED INSTRUMENT. A SINGLE REED INSTRUMENT OF THE RIBBON VARIETY. AN OVAL BLOCK OF WOOD DIVIDED INTO SIX LONGITUDINAL SECTIONS AND LASHED TOGETHER WITH TWISTED SINEWS. THE SECTIONS ARE SO HOLLOWED TO FORM FIVE CHAMBERS WITH LENTICULAR CROSS SECTIONS STARTING AT THE TOP FROM A SINGLE AIR PASSAGE. THE REEDS ARE OF THE RIBBON VARIETY LIKE A SYUAKER? FORMED BY PLACING A BLADE OF GRASS BETWEEN THE THUMBS. IN THIS INSTRUMENT THE REEDS ARE A STRIP OF SILK RIBBON, 3/8 IN. WIDE, PASSED IN AND AROUND THE SECTIONS AND STRETCHED TAUT ACROSS THE MIDDLE OF EACH LENTICULAR AIR PASSAGE OR CHAMBER. THERE IS A DIFFERENCE IN PITCH OF THE DIFFERENT SECTIONS. PRODUCING A VERY DISCORDANT SOUND. SEE U.S.M. REPORT 1888, P. 330, ILL. PL. LXI, NO. 319 AND LXII, NO 301. PL. VI-R P. 260, U.S.N.M. AR, 1888. SEE WILSON'S PREHISTORIC ART. P. 565, ILL. PL. 71, FIG. 314."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. This wooden horn is possibly made from red cedar. Sound is produced from vibrations of hide inside.