Accession No
Z 29609 H
Description
Ocarina or whistle made of dark brown wood. Broadly rectangular in profile with one small projections at two of the corners; flat faces; two small holes on one face; three holes on the side with the projections; one hole on one of the short sides; one blocked hole opposite the side with the projections.
Place
Americas; South America; Peru
Period
?Pre-Hispanic/Pre-Columbian
Source
Wellcome Historical Medical Museum [donor]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
Z 29609 H
Cultural Affliation
Material
Wood
Local Term
Measurements
36mm
Events
Context (Related Documents)
Catalogue card has sketches of whistle and mother-of-pearl pendants
Event Date
Author: maa
Description (Physical description)
Original description for Z 29609[A-H]: 'Beads; also one wooden ?whistle. One strand large beads of stone, pottery, shell and electron. Three strands small black cylindrical ?bone or shell beads with interspersed coloured ones. One has a bird-like head as centrepiece. Two strands reddish ?bone beads, one has two carved mother-of-pearl pendants with zigzag edges. Two plaited string necklets with pear-shaped copper amulet.'
Event Date
Author: maa
Description (Physical description)
Ocarina or whistle made of dark brown wood. Broadly rectangular in profile with one small projections at two of the corners; flat faces; two small holes on one face; three holes on the side with the projections; one hole on one of the short sides; one blocked hole opposite the side with the projections.
Event Date 16/12/2024
Author: Nora J. Klages-Miller
FM:322543
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