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Whistles

Nuna peoples, Burkina Faso
20th century
Wood
Collection of Robert and Nancy Nooter

Wooden Nuna whistles are played in ensembles at initiation and funeral rites, sounded by the winner in a farming contest to announce victory and employed as a signaling device by hunters and warriors.

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