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- Mexico
- flauto de pico replica (flute), circa 1970
- Where object was made: Mexico
- ceramic, paint
- Object Length/Width/Depth: 24 x 6.5 x 7 cm
Object Length/Width/Depth: 9 7/16 x 2 1/2 x 2 3/4 in - Betty Austin Hensley Flutes of the World
- Not on display
- 2011.0413
- Mexico
- Open page with bookmarkable url
- Multimedia
- Description
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Ceramic musical instrument. Five finger holes. Tapered mouthpiece and flared end. Human face with a wide, flat headdress and large ear frontals at top, just under black mouthpiece. Two different human faces at bottom. One has a smaller, flat headdress and large ear frontals. The other face does not have a headdress or ear frontals. Modeled red snake with black detail runs length of flute. Bell of flute is red, body is brown-grey.