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whistle

Whistle (one of four); made of pottery; lightly fired; semicircular tube with chicken head at one end, tail at other; painted with black lines and spots in pitch-like substance (chapopote in Spanish); hole on back, hole at neck and under tail; hole in tail (mouthpiece?).

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