- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Pottery group of hen with 3 chicks. Whistle.
- Long description
- Mouth hole in tail, two fingerholes, one in each wing of the hen. [HLR]
- Cultural groups
- European Russian
- Person
- Field collector Erich Moritz von Hornbostel
- PRM source Erich Moritz von Hornbostel
- PRM source Thomas Thomson Paterson
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1946
- Date collected
- By 1946
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1946
- Materials and processes
- Material Pottery, Process Fire-Hardened, Process Glazed
- Dimensions
- Length: max 65 mm, Height: max 96 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1946.12.4
Search terms: Music, Figure, Pottery, Musical Instrument, Bird Figure, Flute
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