PLACE REPRESENTED:   Nicaragua

ITEM: Whistle

NOTES: A beautifully detailed ornament that doubles as a two hole whistle. You blow air in through the tail and change pitch by opening and closing holes on the birds back. The bird depicted is a Nicaraguan keel-billed Toucan I think. Nifty though my mastery of the instrument is limited. There is a story behind the “Nicaraguan Bird Whistle” rise to tourist trinket: they are locally made and they help feed local underprivileged children. They are made around the Granada town area by Heliberto & Family Handcrafted Ceramics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPZgdtoFqIE

YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 2016

MADE FROM: clay

MADE IN:  Nicaragua

MANUFACTURER: Heliberto & Family Handcrafted Ceramics

DIMENSIONS: 9cm  long , 8cm high