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Seated female effigy whistle
Seated female effigy whistle

Seated female effigy whistle

AD 600–750
Object PlaceCampeche, Mexico
Medium/TechniqueEarthenware: traces of black and red slip paint and blue post-fire paint
Dimensions22.1 x 12.5 cm (8 11/16 x 4 15/16 in.)
Credit LineJohn H. and Ernestine A. Payne Fund
Accession number1972.876
On View
On view
ClassificationsFigurines
Collections
Description
This woman wears jadeite earflares and tubular bead necklaces. 
ProvenanceBy 1968, Alphonse Jax (dealer), New York [see note]; 1972, sold by Jax to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 13, 1972)

NOTE: Lent to Art of Ancient and Modern Latin America (Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, New Orleans, May 10 - June 16, 1968), cat. no. 138.