Art History Animalia<p>It has a cousin at Harvard Peabody Museum!<br>“Ceramic ocarina, zoomorphic, quadruped w/ tail, incised & engraved body, 4 playing holes”<br>(It’s another <a href="https://historians.social/tags/peccary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>peccary</span></a> )<br>10.8x12.5x6.1 cm<br>Nicoya, Guanacaste, Costa Rica<br><a href="https://collections.peabody.harvard.edu/objects/details/355420" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">collections.peabody.harvard.ed</span><span class="invisible">u/objects/details/355420</span></a><br>BTW, it’s interesting that they’re both oriented towards the player…these animal ocarinas were usually oriented to face outwards when played so that it looked like the animal was singing…but with these peccaries you had to blow into their snoots to make them toot 😂</p>