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FROM CARD: "AN OVAL TAPERING PIECE OF PINE, DIVIDED LONGITUDINALLY INTO HALVES. THE HALVES ARE EXCAVATED SIMILAR TO 20,698 AND FITTED WITH A LARGE OVAL SEED MADE OF PINE. THE MOUTH PIECE IS REDUCED IN SIZE TO BETTER FIT THE LIPS. SHALLOW GROOVES ARE MADE IN THE OUTSIDE TO KEEP THE LASHINGS ONE OF SPRUCE ROOT. THE JOINTS ARE MADE TIGHT WITH PITCH OR GUN"Ian Reid (Heiltsuk) and Clyde Tallio (Nuxalk) 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's a single reed with hide and spruce root binding. On the end it's sap. It has a red cedar chamber, spruce root, tan hide binding and burlap sack helping it hold the reed in place. The reed itself looks like red or yellow cedar. It might be pine, but not the chamber.