- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Whistle in shape of a horse or mule, tail upright, white slip red and green decorations.
- Geographical reference
- Mallorca Balearic Islands Palma de Mallorca
- Cultural groups
- Spanish
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1933
- Date collected
- By 1933
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1933
- Materials and processes
- Material Pottery, Material Pigment, Process Fire-Hardened, Process Painted, Process Modelled
- Dimensions
- Height: max 122 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1933.61.18 Other numbers: IX.226.18
- Research and responses
Originally used at a festival in BONA NOVA outside PALMA
Search terms: Music, Ritual and Ceremonial, Figure, Pottery, Musical Instrument, Animal Figure, Flute
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