Chavin Flute / Miniature Whistle - Avian Form

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. Three wonderful hand-built zoomorphic terracotta whistles. Two whistles take avian forms, one with donut-shaped eye

A long carved wooden avian form flute with mask like face, traditional style and deep well handled surface patina. Bobo peoples, Burkina Faso, West Africa. The flute measures 24 inches tall on its cus

A Carved wooden flute or whistle in classic form, incised linear designs and a well handled and worn surface suggesting generations of traditional use. Mossi or related ethnic group such as the Marka

A lovely mounted set of two old Bwa flute or whistles with elongated forms and well handled and worn surface patina. The Flutes measure 26.5 and 19.5 inches tall on their professional custom display s

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 200 BCE to 200 CE. An adorable redware ceramic effigy whistle depicting a sweet bird. Avian forms were embraced in the Pre-Columbian world as sky animals that c

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Chavin, ca. 1200 to 500 BCE. A beautiful miniature feline pendant, hand-carved from a chalky white shell and embellished with finely-incised designs. The form depicts

Pre-Columbian, Western Mexico, ca. 300 BCE to 500 CE. Fun lot of ancient miniatures! Included is a tiny whistle in the form of a puppy, another in the form of a turtle, small jade or jadeite bead and

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Chavin, ca. 1200 to 500 BCE. A stunning miniature bead, hand-carved from a violet-hued amethyst fragment with effervescent white inclusions. The form of the bead resem

German Sterling Silver Miniature Flute Player Ca. 1900, H 5.7'' | Ivory face. Mouse on flute. Standing on round pedestal accented with three stones and raised on four mouse form feet. Much detail in s

Pre-Columbian, northern Peru, Chavin, ca. 900 to 500 BCE. An impressive miniature footed jar, hand-carved from a translucent red stone to present a deep bowl supported by 4 legs in the form of trophy

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, Northern Coast of Peru, Cupisnique / Chavin culture, ca. 1250 to 500 BCE. A superb hand-carved red-jasper jar in the form of a miniature feline - a puma or jag

Three Miniature Musical Instruments, Chavin, Peru, 700-1 BCE Length of round whistle: 4.2 cm Height of cylindrical whistles between: 10 - 11.5 cm Provenance: Jean Pierre Cottier and Fiorella Cottier-

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Sican-Lambayeque culture, ca. 750 to 1375 CE. A hand-built pottery stirrup vessel with a whistle component in the avian head. The vessel has 2 chambers: 1 in the form

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A set of 2 hand-built pottery whistles, each depicting a stylized avian creature. The darker whistle exhibits a crescent-shaped mouthpiece, a

3" 3/4 Groove Miniature Axe, Van Buren Co, Iowa, Great Flute, Nice Form, Excellent Example, , Native American Arrowhead, Indian Artifact

**First Time At Auction**Pre-Columbian, Western Mexico, Colima culture, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. An adorable terracotta whistling avian vessel in hues of dark umber, brown, and light orange, with a bulb

Group of Twelve Staffordshire Pottery Miniatures, 19th Century, variously modelled as sailors, maidens, animals, and most notably a box in form of a boy in a boat and a sailor with whistle cap; note a

COLLECTION OF OCARINA WHISTLESContinental, mid-20th century. Ten (10) ebonized and lacquered flutes of assorted form.Largest: 8 x 5 in. (20.3 x 12.7 cm.)

Pre-Columbian Maya Avian form plaque from Mexico - representing a macaw or other tropical parrot species, this important mosaic object was created from a thinned section of limestone which was further

Pre-Columbian stone hacha in a rare form of a parrot "Macaw" in a palm tan stone. 9 1/2" H x 7" W

Ancient Near East / Central Asia, Sasanian (Sassanian / Sassanid) Empire, ca. 2nd to 7th century CE. One of the most elaborate bronze oil lamps we have ever handled, expertly cast via the lost wax (ci

Pre-Columbian, Panama, Chiriqui culture, ca. 500 to 1200 CE. An incredible piece of blue-green jade fashioned from an axe/celt shape into a more abstract, avian form pendant. Drilled holes near one en

Pre-Columbian, north coast of Peru, Sican / Lambayeque culture, ca. 10th to 11th century CE. An attractive, paper-thin, hammered gold applique in the form of a bird - perhaps an eagle - shown flying i

A very fine old pair of royal currency knives in the form of plants with two birds on top. The blades of wrought iron with painted white accents. Mangbetu peoples, Drc/ Congo, Africa. The Knives measu