Trio of Colima Terracotta Figural Whistles - Functional

**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

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A lovely ensemble of handbuilt ceramic musical instruments, including a parrot whistle, a flute with an animorph head at one end and a smalle

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A hand-built terracotta figural whistle featuring an elaborately dressed drummer standing behind and beating his tall cylindrical drum with b

**Originally Listed At $350** Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. Three hand-built terracotta whistles in different zoomorphic guises: a bird with elaborately styled plumage on

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A near miniature figural terracotta whistle depicting an endearing standing cargador (carrier) with a sack suspende

Pre-Columbian, Mexico, Jaina Island, ca. 500 to 700 CE. A fine mold-made terracotta whistle in the form of a dancer, facing front with arms gesturing toward the right, wearing a magnificent animorphic

Pre-Columbia Terracotta Figural Whistle, h./ 2 1/2 in., w. 1 1/4 in., d. 1 1/4 in., on stand. Provenance: Estate of Curator and Scholar and Advocate of Outsider and Contemporary Art Bill Fagaly, sold

Pre-Columbian, Gulf Coast of Mexico, Veracruz, Remojadas, ca. 600 to 900 CE. An exceptional terracotta figural whistle depicting a musician standing atop two attenuated legs and holding a drum in his

Pre-Columbian, Gulf Coast of Mexico, Veracruz, Remojadas, ca. 600 to 900 CE. An exceptional terracotta figural whistle depicting a musician standing atop two attenuated legs and holding a drum in his

Pre-Columbian, Gulf Coast of Mexico, Veracruz, Remojadas, ca. 600 to 900 CE. An exceptional terracotta figural whistle depicting a musician standing atop two attenuated legs and holding a drum in his

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A fine pottery figural whistle, perhaps an athlete, wearing a conical helmet that straps under the chin and standing atop thick, slightly ben

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A hand-built terracotta drummer sitting behind and beating his tall drum with both hands. This musician wears a fabulous, elaborate headdress

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A hand-built pottery whistle in the form of an adorable puppy as it attempts to stand on its four attenuated legs.

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A hand-built pottery acrobat figure with an unusually contorted body. Posed in a handstand with the head facing for

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, Western Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A pottery flute adorned by brown slip with the figure of a ball player or warrior just below the flared mouthpie

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. Definitely a conversation starter: a hollow pottery figure that functions as a whistle and is dominated by an enorm

Pre-Columbian, Ecuador, Chorrera culture, ca. 9th to 4th century BCE. A wonderful functioning human figural whistle, hand-built from terracotta and slipped with white over the body and what might have

Pre-Columbian, Western Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A wonderful pair of hand-built pottery figural whistles. Both playing drums, the larger figure is depicted seated, while the shorter one s

Pre-Columbian, Classic Maya, Guatemala or Mexico, ca. 600 to 900 CE. This is a fantastic piece of functional pottery sculpture! It is a whistle in the form of a bird caught in the act of snagging some

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. An endearing hand-built terracotta whistle in the form of a scorpion, embellished with applied ring-shaped eyes, mo

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A small hollow pottery figural whistle in the form of a seated drummer, complete with drum, wearing an enormous crested headdress and large d

Pre-Columbian, Ecuador, Jamacoaque culture, ca. 500 CE and Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. The larger is a figural whistle from the Jamacoaque culture with a bulbous head an

**First Time At Auction**Pre-Columbian, Mayan Territories, Jaina Island, ca. 550 to 900 CE. A diminutive terracotta whistling figural statuette from Jaina Island or "Island of Kings." This short-statu

Two Pre-Columbian, Colima pottery pieces, including: whistle of drummer form; together with carrier figure; H: 4" (largest, approx.)