Figural Shell Whistle

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CultureInca (Inka)

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Figural Shell Whistle

Date1200–1532 AD

PlacePeru, South America

MediumEarthenware with slip and shell

Dimensions4 1/2 × 1 3/8 × 1 7/16 inches

Credit LineGift of Alfred C. Glassell, Jr.

Object number2002.4359

Not on view

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Department

Art of the Indigenous Americas, Glassell Collection

Object Type

CERAMICS

Provenance(Lot #50 in Sotheby's Pre-Columbian Art Auction, May 19, 1987);
Alfred C. Glassell, Jr. Collection, Houston, since 1987 [Glassell Album # 10, slide dated "MAY 87"];
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2002, 2002.4359

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