Whistle in the Form of a Human

Unidentified maker (Guatemala)

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Pre-Columbian

Terracotta

Overall: 3 7/16 × 2 1/2 in. (8.8 × 6.4 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Glover Street Hastings III

181.2.26202

Geography

Place Made: Guatemala, Central America

Object Name

Musical Instrument

Research Area

Americas

Not on view

Provenance

Collected by Glover Street Hastings III, West Newton, Massachusetts and Bridgeton, Maine, 1920's-1930's; bequeathed to his daughter, Carlena Hastings Redfield (1888-1981), 1949; bequeathed to present collection [under the terms of her father's will], 1981.

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