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Hollow bone tube. Tube has a minor curve and is slightly flattened in profile. The exterior is shiny and smooth, with a single bored hole at one end and multiple brown rings lightly carved onto the outer surface.
Powder horn. The hollow, curved horn is open at its small end. The wide end is closed off with a round wooden stopper, held in place with 8 evenly spaced round-headed nails bored through the horn. A large nail emerges from the centre of the end, around which is knotted a twisted cotton cord that is tied to a thin string and wrapped around the narrow end of the horn between two carved rings. There is a large light red contact stain on one side of the horn and part of the string.
Wooden whistle, oval in cross-section. The whistle is in two sections (parts a-b) that are not attached (-there is no binding, and no colour differentiation to indicate it ever being present). The mouthpiece is thick, slightly rounded on the horizontal, with a wider, pointed shoulder. Midsection of the instrument narrows before flaring toward its base where the opening is twice the size of the mouth. The whistle’s interior is hollowed out and nearly smooth. Below the shoulder on the interior of both sides is a whistle mechanism carved with undulations.
Plain wooden rattle. The rattle’s head is made of two rounded, oblong pieces of deeply concave wood, hollowed on the inside, attached to each other on both long edges by strands of plant fibre (cedar root?), threaded through holes bored in the wood. The head is undecorated. Inside are noisemakers, possibly seeds. The handle is long, thin, and cylindrical, made of two similarly sized and shaped pieces of wood carved to fit together, hollow on the inside and held together by three metal nails. A small tuft of cotton thread is attached around the bottom nail on both sides. A decorative jog has been created in the connection point between the two pieces of wood on both sides of the handle.
Brooklyn Museum Collection