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Fan Shaped Flute with Standing Figure

Fan Shaped Flute with Standing Figure, between 300 and 900

  • Veracruz, Precolumbian

Terracotta

  • Overall: 5 1/2 × 6 1/2 × 15 1/8 inches (14 × 16.5 × 38.4 cm)

Gift of Joyce and Avern Cohn

1990.290

Department

Africa, Oceania & Indigenous Americas

Details

1990-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Veracruz, Precolumbian, Fan Shaped Flute with Standing Figure, between 300 and 900, terracotta. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Joyce and Avern Cohn, 1990.290.

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