Description (Physical description)
Very hard pottery ?part of whistle.
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Field collection)
Mound G1, G2 or G3, La Libertad. Excavated by G.H.S. Bushnell, likely in 1936. See archive (FR2/2/1) for correspondence and the photographic collection (P.145474.BUS – P.145604.BUS) for photographs.
Event Date 1936
Author: maa

Context (References)
Bushnell, G.H.S. (1951). The Archaeology of the Santa Elena Peninsula in South-West Ecuador. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Event Date 1951
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung

Context (Display)
Exhibited pre 1985 in Maudslay Gallery Ecuador display drawer G5 (Guangala stone, copper, shell).
Event Date 1985
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung

Description (Physical description)
May be bone or stone with some sort of resin running down the centre of the object.
Event Date 27/10/2003
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung

Description (Physical description)
One flute or whistle made of worked bone and an unidentified, resin-like material on the inside. Elongated hollow bone, roughly oval in cross section with one circular perforation on one side; two further perforation close to truncated simple edge at the end of the other side; between the holes all around incised horizontal and diagonal lines, creating a pattern of dotted triangles and plain diamonds; other end broken off and missing. Broken into at least four pieces, but held together by the resin like material on the interior. Dark brown to black surface coloration.
Event Date 14/11/2024
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung