Unknown American
Fife

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Maker Unknown American

CultureAmerican

Titles

Fife

Datec. 1862

Made inUnited States

MediumUnidentified wood and silver

Dimensions15 × 3/4 in. diameter (38.1 × 1.9 cm)

Credit LineThe Bayou Bend Collection, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Langwith

Object numberB.2011.27

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Department

Bayou Bend

Object Type

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

DescriptionThis fife belonged to John Sivil, Jr. Trained as a boot and shoemaker, Sivil enlisted in the Union Army during the Civil War and was commissioned as a fife major.
ProvenanceJohn Sivil, Jr. (1828–1904); inherited by his daughter Elizabeth Mary Clark (nee Sivil (1851–1940); given to great-nephew Edmund Langwith Jr. (1925–2012), Houston; given to MFAH, 2012.

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