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Phallic-Shaped Flute - PF.4054
Origin: Costa Rica
Circa: 300
BC
to 500
AD
Dimensions:
8.5" (21.6cm) high
Collection: Pre-Columbian
Medium: Terracotta
$9,000.00
Location: United States
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| Description |
During an era when the family was a crucial part
of life and maintaining the patrilineal bloodline
was of utmost importance, the idea of human
sexuality and fertility played a large role in life.
To promote this awareness and importance,
various objects were created, as symbols of the
progression of life and eternity. This phallus-
shaped flute is a part of this idea. In design, the
flute is very simple, offering only the simplest of
notes with only three holes to change the sound.
The craftsman made the piece with solid and
heavy earthenware, while maintaining the subtle
polychrome color, so as not to distract from its
actual function. Fertility and the continuation of
the bloodline were extremely important during a
time of tribal communities and settlements. This
instrument demonstrates the importance and the
visibility of the issue. Modesty was not
important, unlike today perhaps, thus opening
us up and introducing us to an entirely new and
different mentality, where survival of the people
was the most important thing.
- (PF.4054)
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