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"Ancient" Flutes

This page of the Flute Catalog shows flutes crafted prior to 1800 that have images.

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Image from [Zhang 1999], cropped by Clint Goss.
Jiahu M341:1: Ancient Jiahu (賈湖) Major Sixth Rim-blown Flute
Image from [Zhang 1999], cropped by Clint Goss.
Jiahu M341:2: Ancient Jiahu (賈湖) Major Penta Rim-blown Flute
Image from [Zhang 1999], cropped by Clint Goss.
Jiahu M78:1: Ancient Jiahu (賈湖) Rim-blown Flute
Image from [Zhang 1999], cropped by Clint Goss.
Jiahu M253:4: Ancient Jiahu (賈湖) Major Diatonic Rim-blown Flute
Image from [Zhang 1999], cropped by Clint Goss.
Jiahu M282:20: Ancient Jiahu (賈湖) Jiahu M282:20 Rim-blown Flute
Courtesy of China Daily / Long Wei / Asia News Photo.
Jiahu M282:21: Ancient Jiahu (賈湖) Jiahu M282:21 Rim-blown Flute
Image from [Zhang 2004], cropped/enhanced by Clint Goss.
Zhongshanzhai Ancient Jiahu (賈湖) Rim-blown Pitch Pipe
Image courtesy of Robert Gatliff.
East-Texas Rim-blown Whistle
Image by Philip J. DiBlasi
Mammoth Cave Reed Rim-blown Flute
Image from [Harrington 1933]
Gypsum Cave 6F396: Rim-blown Flute
Image from [Harrington 1933]
Gypsum Cave 6F84: Rim-blown Flute
Courtesy of the Arizona State Museum.
Broken Flute Cave A-13994-A Ancestral Puebloan Low Bb BFC Scale Rim-blown Flute
Image from [Payne 1989]
Broken Flute Cave A-13994-B Ancestral Puebloan Rim-blown Flute
Image from [Trease 2007]
Broken Flute Cave A-14450 Ancestral Puebloan Low Bb Rim-blown Flute
Courtesy of the Arizona State Museum.
Broken Flute Cave A-14451 Ancestral Puebloan Rim-blown Flute
Image from [Pepper 1909]
Pueblo Bonito Room 33 H-4557 Flute
Image from [Pepper 1909]
Pueblo Bonito Room 33 H-4558 Flute
Image from [Pepper 1909]
Pueblo Bonito Room 33 H-4559 Flute
Image from [Pepper 1909]
Pueblo Bonito Room 33 H-4560 Flute
Image from [Pepper 1909]
Pueblo Bonito Room 33 H-4561 Flute
Image from [Pepper 1909]
Pueblo Bonito Room 33 H-4562 Flute
Image from [Pepper 1909]
Pueblo Bonito Room 33 H-4563 Painted Flute
Image from [Pepper 1909]
Pueblo Bonito Room 33 Large Flute
Image from [Pepper 1920]
Pueblo Bonito Room 85 Square Flute H-7270 Flute
Image courtesy of the National Museum of the American Indian
NMAI 5/1422: Ancestral Puebloan ~825 Rim-blown Flute
Image from [Trease 2010]
Range Creek Rim-blown Flute
Image by James Rees
Breckenridge Native American Flute
Image courtesy of the Canadian History Museum.
CMH VIII-F:19855: Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) ~1400 Rim-blown Flute

 
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