Courting Flute
Ojibwa (Chippewa, Anishinaabe) people, western Great Lakes region
United States/Canada (map), c. 1880
Carved wood, metal plate, fiber wrap
21.5” l (55 cm)
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An old and elegant flute from the western Great Lakes region. The ‘block’ of the instrument—a sensitively rendered loon image—affords this example a remarkable sculptural quality.