M0016037: Bone Koauau (flute) played during difficult labour, Maori

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Photograph of a flute made from the human bone of an ancestor and decorated with a carved design. It was included in the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum exhibition "Medicine of the Aboriginal Peoples in the British Commonwealth" held in 1952 and published in <i>Catalogue of an exhibition illustrating the medicine of the aboriginal peoples in the British Commomwealth</i>. It was purchased by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1934 and accessioned in 1936 (accession number R4432/1936). It is not held by Wellcome Collection.

M0016037: Bone Koauau (flute) played during difficult labour, Maori

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