Stylized Human Figure

300 B.C.–A.D. 300

Micaceous rock, gray

28.5 cm (11 1/4 in.)

Stephen Carlton Clark, B.A. 1903, Fund

1973.88.17

Geography:

Mexico

Status:

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center

Culture:

Mexico, Mezcala, Guerrero

Period:

Late Formative to Early Classic Period

Classification:

Tools and Equipment

Provenance:

Fred H. Olsen (1891–1986), and Florence Quittenton Olsen, Guilford, Conn.; gift in 1973 to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography:

“Acquisitions, 1973,” Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin 35, no. 1 (Summer 1974): 77.

George A. Kubler, ed., Pre-Columbian Art of Mexico and Central America (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1986), 89, 254, no. 160, fig. 85.

Richard Brettell, “Mezcala Stone Sculpture in the Olsen Collection,” Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin 35, no. 1 (Summer 1974): 16, fig. 2.

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