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Colima Blackware Pottery Flute with Warrior

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Colima Blackware Pottery Flute with Warrior

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Description

Pre-Columbian, West Coast Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. Most flutes we see are usually very plain and almost always repaired. This fine example is neither. Straight pottery musical instrument has a black burnished finish, head of a warrior adorns the area just below the mouth-piece. He wears a heavy textile helmet wrapped under his chin, adorned with added coffee bean eyes. Nice! 9-1/2"L (23.9 cm).

Provenance: Ex-private Houston, TX collection acquired at auction or local gallery between 1982 and 1994.

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Condition

Intact and excellent and plays quite well!

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Colima Blackware Pottery Flute with Warrior

Name: Colima Blackware Pottery Flute with Warrior
SKU: 39302048
Price: 275 USD
Availability: InStock

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