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Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi
Whistle
Maker
Costa Rican, Atlantic Watershed
Date
1-500
Made/manufactured
North and Central America
Medium
Ceramic
Dimensions
1 3/4 x 1 5/8 x 1 1/4 in. (4.4 x 4.1 x 3.2 cm)
Classifications
Ceramics
Object number
C-86-25
On View
Not on view
Collections
ANCIENT AMERICAN
Description
Oddly shaped whistle with small spherical body with two large extensions, one the mouthpiece, the other broken at end, in a 90 degree angle, two other small extensions, both broken - possibly was a bird figure.
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