Animal effigy ocarina or flute
A.D. 500–900
Object PlaceVeracruz or Tabasco, México
Medium/TechniqueEarthenware: traces of blue-green post-fire paint
Dimensions8.5 x 33 cm (3 3/8 x 13 in.)
Credit LineGift of Landon T. Clay
Accession number1988.1218
On View
On viewClassificationsMusical instruments
Collections
NOTE: This is one in a group of Maya artifacts (MFA accession nos. 1988.1169 – 1988.1299) known as the “November Collection” after John Fulling’s company, the Art Collectors of November, Inc. John Fulling sold this group of objects to MFA donor Landon Clay in 1987, and they were given to the Museum the following year.
Evidence suggests that John Fulling built the November Collection from sources in Guatemala between 1974 and 1981. Only a portion of what he acquired during this time came to the MFA in 1988. It is not possible to determine precisely which objects were acquired when or from whom.
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