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    Collection Objects
    Art of the Ancient Americas

    Standing figure with painted face and body

    Maker: Unknown
    Date: 
    1500–900 B.C.
    Medium: 

    Cream slipped ceramic with red paint

    Accession Number: 
    2008.215.20
    Culture: 
    Olmec
    Period: 
    Early Formative Period
    Classification: 
    Sculpture
    Status: 
    By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
    Collection Objects
    Art of the Ancient Americas

    House Model

    Artist: Unknown
    Date: 
    100 B.C.–A.D. 250
    Medium: 

    Ceramic

    Accession Number: 
    1959.55.27
    Culture: 
    West Mexico, Nayarit, Ixtlán del Río Style
    Period: 
    Protoclassic Period
    Classification: 
    Sculpture
    Status: 
    By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
    Collection Objects
    Art of the Ancient Americas

    Vessel with Four House Models

    Artist: Unknown
    Date: 
    100 B.C.–A.D. 250
    Medium: 

    Ceramic with pigment

    Accession Number: 
    2016.148.8
    Culture: 
    Mexico, Nayarit, Ixtlán del Río Style
    Period: 
    Protoclassic Period
    Classification: 
    Containers - Ceramics
    Status: 
    By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
    Collection Objects
    Art of the Ancient Americas

    Object in form of a recumbent jaguar

    Artist: Unknown
    Date: 
    1100–300 B.C.
    Medium: 

    Dark Green Serpentine

    Accession Number: 
    ILE2015.19.2
    Culture: 
    Olmec
    Period: 
    Early to Middle Formative Period
    Classification: 
    Sculpture
    Status: 
    By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
    Collection Objects
    Art of the Ancient Americas

    Celt carved in the form of a supernatural creature

    Artist: Unknown
    Date: 
    1000–300 B.C.
    Medium: 

    Translucent pale blue green jade

    Accession Number: 
    ILE2015.19.10
    Culture: 
    Mexico, Puebla, Olmec
    Period: 
    Middle Formative
    Classification: 
    Sculpture
    Status: 
    By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
    Collection Objects
    Art of the Ancient Americas

    Maskette

    Artist: Unknown
    Date: 
    300 B.C.–A.D. 250
    Medium: 

    Steatite

    Accession Number: 
    ILE2015.19.11
    Culture: 
    Mexico, Izapa
    Period: 
    Late Formative to Early Classic Period
    Classification: 
    Sculpture
    Status: 
    By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
    Collection Objects
    Art of the Ancient Americas

    Olmec Effigy mortar

    Artist: Unknown
    Date: 
    1000–300 B.C.
    Medium: 

    Green Serpentine

    Accession Number: 
    ILE2016.4.5
    Culture: 
    Mexico, Olmec
    Period: 
    Middle Formative
    Classification: 
    Sculpture
    Status: 
    By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
    Collection Objects
    Art of the Ancient Americas

    Olmec Maskette

    Artist: Unknown
    Date: 
    900–300 B.C.
    Medium: 

    Turquoise colored stone

    Accession Number: 
    ILE2016.12.3
    Culture: 
    Mexico or Guatemala, Olmec
    Period: 
    Middle Formative
    Classification: 
    Masks
    Status: 
    By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
    Collection Objects
    Art of the Ancient Americas

    Flat- bottomed Bowl

    Artist: Unknown
    Date: 
    1200–900 B.C
    Medium: 

    Green stone

    Accession Number: 
    ILE2016.12.4
    Culture: 
    Mexico, Xochipala
    Period: 
    Early Pre-Classic
    Classification: 
    Containers - Stone
    Status: 
    By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
    Collection Objects
    Art of the Ancient Americas

    Tripod Vessel with Two Rectangular Panels

    Artist: Unknown
    Date: 
    A.D. 300–650
    Medium: 

    Partially mold-pressed ceramic with pigment

    Accession Number: 
    ILE2018.11.1
    Culture: 
    Guatemala, Tiquisate, Teotihuacan Culture
    Period: 
    Early Classic Period
    Classification: 
    Containers - Ceramics
    Status: 
    By appointment, Wurtele Study Center

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