Huaco Silbador-Peruvian Whistling Vessel - Partridge Marble Comparing salvia to ayahuasca and

Comparing salvia to ayahuasca and the San Pedro cactus

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Named for a Peruvian mountain

Shows how shamans heal using their knowledge of plant spirits as well as the plant's "medical properties"

Huaco Silbador-Peruvian Whistling Vessel - Partridge Marble Comparing salvia to ayahuasca andThis chambered hollow clay replica of a pre Columbian whistling vessel bears the likeness of a partridge. 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 when held and tipped,