Whistle

Description

This instrument was collected in the field by Percy Horace Gordon and Hannah Powell-Cotton. It is an end-blown whistle ("lapilo") made from a bushbuck horn, in which the player blows against the larger open end of the horn. This end has two lumps of a dark resin mixture to assist with the proper embouchure to produce sound, and is wrapped in leather. There are three iron alloy rings and a leather strap attached to two of these rings.