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Vessel whistle
Unknown culture
before A.D. 1600
Object Place: Honduras, Ulua Valley region
Medium/Technique
Earthenware
Dimensions
Length 5.6 cm, width 2.4 cm, diameter 2.1 cm (Length 2 3/16 in., width 15/16 in., diameter 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
Helen and Alice Colburn Fund
Accession Number1984.357
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CollectionsMusical Instruments
ClassificationsMusical instruments – Aerophones
ProvenanceBefore 1984, sold by a child in a banana plantation hardware store, presumably in Honduras, to Douglas Deihl, Northampton, Massachusetts [apparently, the child dug it up and brought it to the hardware store to barter]; 1984, sold by Deihl to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 13, 1 984)