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Filename: 
MawM0201-000.jp2
Identifying Number: 
MawM0201
Title: 
Anthropomorphic musical rasp.
Subject: 
Files and rasps
Subject: 
Percussion instruments--Mexico--Colima (State)
Subject: 
Art--Mexico--Colima (State)
Subject: 
Indigenous peoples--Antiquities
Description: 
Ceramic Nayarit musicians demonstrate how a rasp was held, played, and looked. A grooved rasp was played with a bore, a shell or wooden object that was dragged over the grooves to produce an unusual sound.
Materials: 
Stone: dull green, polished to a dark smooth green, grooved.
Publisher: 
California State University, Los Angeles
Date: 
between 250 B.C. and 250 A.D.
Type: 
Artifact
Object Type: 
Musical instrument
Dimensions: 
11 9/16 in high x 1 1/8 in wide x 1 5/8 in deep
Collection: 
MAW Collection
Location: 
Colima, Mexico
Rights: 
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Culture: 
Shaft Tomb
Period: 
Protoclassic