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Standing Male Piper

Standing Male Piper

Date: 350 BC - AD 400
Medium: slipped earthenware
Dimensions:
Overall: 5 1/4 x 3 3/8 x 2 3/4 in. (13.3 x 8.6 x 7 cm)
Credit Line:Gift, Luther W. Brady, M.D.
Object number: 2006.16.16
Musicians are common subjects of Jama-Coaque artists and this standing pan piper is a typical example.  Musicians probably played for ritual and socials events, as well as for shamans before and during the times they were in trances.  The small base suggests this figure might have been grouped with others to form a scene of activity.
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