Small straight flute carved from long bone, with four melodi - Lot 209

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Small straight flute carved from long bone, with four melodi - Lot 209
Small straight flute carved from long bone, with four melodic perforations on the upper surface and one on the tip. Animal bone (probably camelid). L. 20 cm. Moche culture, 200-800 A.D. Peru, north coast. Condition: chips and surface overhang. Nice patina. Provenance: Henri André Jean FAVRE Collection (1937-2025) (probably acquired before 1970) Sociologist, researcher and teacher, Henri Favre focused his academic work on the peasant Indian uprisings that punctuated the colonial and republican history of Latin America. He began his research at the Instituto Nacional Indigenista in Mexico, then boarded at the Institut Français d'Etudes Andines, before joining the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in 1966. For almost twenty years at the Institut des Hautes Etudes de l'Amérique Latine, he led a post-graduate seminar on the ethnosociology of peasant Indians in Mesoamerica and the Andes. Henri Favre was Director of Research Emeritus at the CNRS. He is the author of numerous works on the Incas, the Mayas, Peru, Mexico, the indigenous movement in Latin America...
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