Whistle part/fragment (Image withheld, pending review)
- Date created
- 600 BC–AD 400
- Culture/People
- probably Tumaco–La Tolita (archaeological culture) (attributed)
- MAI agent
- Samuel A. Barrett (Samuel Alfred Barrett/S.A. Barrett), Non-Indian, 1879-1965
- Collector
- Samuel A. Barrett (Samuel Alfred Barrett/S.A. Barrett), Non-Indian, 1879-1965
- Expedition sponsor
- Marie A. Heye (Marie Antoinette Lawrence Heye), Non-Indian, 1845-1915
- Collection History
- Collected or purchased from local residents between 1908 and 1909 by Samuel A. Barrett (1879-1965, later Director of the Milwaukee Public Museum and Research Associate at the Lowie Museum of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley) during fieldwork sponsored by George Gustav Heye and his mother, Marie Antoinette Lawrence Heye (1845-1915).
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- Place
- La Tolita; Eloy Alfaro Canton; Esmeraldas Province; Ecuador
- Island Name
- Isla de la Tola
- See related items
- Tumaco–La Tolita (archaeological culture)
- Music and Sound
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Catalog Number
- 2/2958
- Barcode
- 022958.000
- Object Type
- Music and Sound
- Object Name
- Whistle part/fragment (Image withheld, pending review)
- Media/Materials
- Pottery
- Techniques
- Mold-made, modeled, perforated
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
- Record ID
- NMAI_24295