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- Guatemala
- flauta (flute), late 1800s–1976
- Where object was made: Guatemala
- ceramic, incising
- Object Length/Diameter: 22.5 x 2.5 cm
Object Length/Diameter: 8 7/8 x 1 in - Betty Austin Hensley Flutes of the World
- Not on display
- 2007.0660
- Guatemala
- Open page with bookmarkable url
- Multimedia
- Description
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This is a cylindrical red ceramic flute. The mouthpiece end is cone-shaped with a round whistle hole. It has six slightly raised fingerholes. There is a monkey-like face between fingerholes 3 and 4. There is a raised bar on either side of fingerholes 1-3 with diagonal lines. The face has bent arms and human-like hands on the cheeks. The arms are decorated with diagonal lines.