https://emuseum.gardinermuseum.com/internal/media/dispatcher/34829/fullDancer-musician Figural Whistle600-800Maya artist(s)Overall: 21 x 12.2 x 5.2 cm (8 1/4 x 4 13/16 x 2 1/16 in.)Earthenware, red pigment, black pigment, "Maya blue" pigment, and hand-built.Gift of George and Helen GardinerOrigin: Highlands, GuatemalaG83.1.1300Maya dancer-musician flute figure, Late Classic period, playing a flattened drum held against his left shoulder. He is wearing loin-cloth with incised sash, leg bands, rope work necklace with ferocious avial projecting across his shoulder, and crested and plumed headdress. There are remains of blue and red pigment.MesoamericaCeramics from Ancestral Abiayala[]Ancestral AbiayalaMesoamerica184491401MayaLate Classic Period (600-850 CE)