Effigy Female Figure | Yale University Art Gallery

A.D. 900–1100

Medium: Ceramic
Dimensions: 10 13/16 × 6 3/16 in. (27.4 × 15.7 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Winthrop Sargeant
Accession Number: 1976.48.8
Geography: Costa Rica
Culture: Costa Rica, Guanacaste, Nicoya, Late Period IV or Early Period V
Classification: Sculpture
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Bibliography

George A. Kubler, ed., Pre-Columbian Art of Mexico and Central America (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1986), 191, 362, no. 421, fig. 247

"Acquisitions 1976," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin 36, no. 3 (Fall 1977), 55

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Object/Work type

human figures (visual works), sculptures

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