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Anyuak flute (upilu)


Date Made: By 1936 and collected by Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Anyuak flute

Notched end-blown flute carved from a length of yellowish orange segmented bamboo. This consists of a flat-topped embouchure with a deep, v-shaped notch cut into the side, on a hollow cylindrical body with four circular finger-holes along the length. The Anyuak call it upilu