57.5.11, ceramic whistle, 5 centimeters (2 inches) long
Probably Nazca culture, Peru (300 B.C.–A.D. 800)
Watt Stewart Collection
Photograph by B. Bernard
A visual and auditory pun: the whistle was shaped
like a human, so that when the whistle was used, it became
a whistling person.
L.C.S. of Albuquerque asked to see the whistle's face, so here's a mug shot.
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