Quail-pipe

Oroche

Ussuri Krai, river Kusun

late 19th - early 20th century

Wood

length 22.5; width 4.5

РЭМ 1870-102

A pipe rolled from a birch bark tape, widening from the mouthpiece to the flare. Booningkoo, a quail-pipe for Manchurian wapiti, was also made from two halved of a willow trunk. Sometimes it was provided with a wooden mouthpiece with a bronze plate. It was only used for hunting, because its use in chanting and dancing was strictly forbidden by folk law.