Warrior with Facial Decoration Maker: Unknown

A.D. 600–900

Art of the Ancient Americas

On view, 1st floor, Art of the Ancient Americas

This man has wrapped a snake around his neck as the final layer to a potent war costume. He wears a hip cloth, loincloth, and shell noisemakers at his waist. Like other warriors, he wears flaps that drape as if they were unsewn sleeves; his left cheek bears the marking of the Jester God, a symbol of the royal family. He once carried a shield and spear in his hands.

Medium

Ceramic with pigment

Dimensions

7 1/8 in. (18.1 cm)
7 1/2 × 3 9/16 × 3 3/4 in. (19 × 9 × 9.5 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of the Olsen Foundation

Accession Number

1958.15.11

Geography

Mexico

Culture

Mexico, probably Campeche, Jaina Island, Maya

Period

Late Classic Period

Classification

Sculpture

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Stable Gallery, New York, February 17, 28, 1956 ; Alfred Stendahl Gallery, Los Angeles, March 1, 1957; Fred H. Olsen (1891–1986), and Florence Quittenton Olsen, Guilford, Conn.; gift in 1958 to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • Susan B. Matheson, Art for Yale: A History of the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2001), 166–67, fig. 165
  • Handbook of the Collections, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 318, ill
  • George A. Kubler, ed., Pre-Columbian Art of Mexico and Central America (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1986), 7, 134–35, no. 298, color image on p. 7, ill
  • "New Acquisitions Issue," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin 24, no. 1 (April 1958), 23, 25, fig. 11
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
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Object/Work type

human figures (visual works), sculptures

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