Huaco Silbador-Peruvian Whistling Vessel - Woodpecker Indigenous Writers In the first section

In the first section

This stone encourages openness to subtle realms while keeping the spirit grounded and aware

guiding one into states of clarity

Vertical orthohedral wooden flute with six fingering holes in the central part whose origin dates back to the Aymara lordships of the highlands and is widely used in Andean festivities

Huaco Silbador-Peruvian Whistling Vessel - Woodpecker Indigenous Writers In the first sectionThis chambered hollow clay replica of a pre Columbian whistling vessel bears a zoomorphic head of a woodpecker on its front chamber. Sculpted by ethnomusicologist Jose Vitancio Humeres of Peru, it is a replica of an original design. "I think the sounds these instruments make were to create positive energy," says Vitancio Humeres. Constructed of two chambers, as well as a system of air ducts and aqueducts, the vessel is filled partially with water, and