[Bonetools] Mystery bird bone object from Gotland

[Petar Zidarov]

Dear Kristiina and Christian,
Thank you very much for shearing these interesting finds on the Mystery Bonetools's page.

I am not a specialist in history of musical instruments and I missed the discussion in Paris following Kristiina's presentaiton, but what I can see on the submitted pictures looks to me very much like very well preserved elements of composite bone flutes. 
I could even imagine that if one dares to clean and put them carefully together, actually one should be even able to reproduce tones. Certainly they are much shorter than conventional pieces made of
wood/ivory but this could be due to size limitations imposed by the raw material.

Here are some links that could give you an idea what made me think of identifying them as flute elements: 
- http://www.bulgariankaval.com/index.html 
- http://orgs.usd.edu/nmm/WilliamPotter.html#pewter 

I am looking very much forward hearing more about these spectacular finds.

With best wishes, 
Petar

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--- On Mon, 10/11/10, Christian Küchelmann <info at knochenarbeit.de> wrote:

From: Christian Küchelmann <info at knochenarbeit.de>
Subject: [Bonetools] Mystery bird bone object from Gotland
To: "BONETOOLS of bone" <bonetools at listserv.niif.hu>
Cc: "Kristiina Mannermaa" <kemanner at mappi.helsinki.fi>
Date: Monday, October 11, 2010, 6:09 PM

Dear list members,

Kristiina Mannermaa has sent pictures and facts about the mysterious bird bone objects from Gotland she presented at the recent ICAZ meeting in Paris in August. The objects are accessible now at the mystery bone tool page on the WBRG-Website:
http://www.wbrg.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=33&Itemid=20
If anybody has any comparative objects, ideas, remarks, please get in  contact with Kristiina at kemanner at mappi.helsinki.fi

A copy to the Bonetool list would be highly appreciated.

Yours

Christian

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