Double Vessel

Pottery: red-white-black. Flat bases, globular bodies, one tapering spout, bridge to closed vessel with bird having another bird inside its broken head.

Narrow necked whistling vessel with a double-chambered effigy-zoomorphic body, tapered neck, rounded rim, 1 bridge handle extending from the neck to the body, and a flat base. No molded/modeled additions. One of the chambers is shaped like a bird/owl and had a whistling mechanism in the head. One of the vessel chambers is shaped like a bird and is painted with the features of the bird in red, white, black, and orange. The rest of the vessel is painted with geometric designs in white, red, black, and orange. There appears to be a burnished finish on the exterior. The vessel was likely fired in an oxidizing atmosphere as the ceramic paste is orange in color. The whistling mechanism is visible above the bird shaped chamber due to a loss in the top of the chamber. The catalogue number is written on the bottom of the base and black ink on the bottom of the base reads: "3274a."