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Mossi Warthog Flute
This bulbous 6.5″ flute bears resemblance to one featured in Thomas G. B. Wheelock’s Land of the Flying Masks: Art and Culture in Burkina Faso. Identifying the piece as Mossi, Wheelock writes that “the warthog-shaped flute is common,” with “the telltale warthog canine teeth rendered on a horizontal plane” and “nose wrinkles represented by horizontal lines at the front end of the flute” (447). He additionally notes a “subtle size distinction between the knobs representing the two pairs of protuberances on the warthog” which contributes to the mechanics of the musical instrument.
