Flute or Small Container with Painted Abstract Motif

Nasca (South coast, Peru)

180 BCE–500 CE

Medium

Ceramic and pigment

Classification

Ceramics

Dimensions

5.4 × 4.5 × 3.2 cm (2 1/8 × 1 3/4 × 1 1/4 in.)

Culture

Nazca Valley

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of the Americas

Credit line

Kate S. Buckingham Endowment

Rights

Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.

Who can see it

Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

View at the Art Institute of Chicago

• Ceramics
• Music and dance
• Ornament and pattern
• 2nd century BCE
• Peru
• Black, white and grey