Seems like my bamboo flute is not the first one in this part of Arizona
(Northeast corner, up by the Indian Nations...)
According to the book THE ZUNI ENIGMA by Nancy Yaw Davis, a group of
Japanese Buddhists on a religious quest in the thirteenth century...
searching for the legendary "middle world" of Buddhism, came across the
Pacific and into the American Southwest, where linguistic, religious, and
blood type evidence suggests they merged with the ancient Zuni... among the
bits of cultural exchange was the flute... although a different type than
the shak probably...
just a little bit of interesting speculation...
I wonder if archaeologists of the future will stumble across my bones in the
future, buried in my Pithouse with the bamboo flute by my side, and what
they will make of it... ;*)
Brett Breitwieser (brett@bigskyranch.us)
Big Sky Ranch of Arizuma: http://bigskyranch.us <http://bigskyranch.us>
Pahana's Pithouse: http://pahana.us <http://pahana.us>
"Oh give me a home where the buffalo roam,
and the deer and the antelope play.
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word,
and the skies are not cloudy all day..."
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