Diminutive human mask | Yale University Art Gallery

900–400 B.C.

Medium: Ceramic
Dimensions: 13.2 × 13.7 cm (5 3/16 × 5 3/8 in.)
Credit Line: Stephen Carlton Clark, B.A. 1903, Fund
Accession Number: 1973.88.21
Geography: Tlatilco, Mexico
Culture: Mexico, Tlatilco
Period: Middle Formative Period
Classification: Sculpture
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Provenance

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

Bibliography

George A. Kubler, ed., Pre-Columbian Art of Mexico and Central America (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1986), 37, 202, no. 6, fig. 4.

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

Elizabeth Kennedy Easby and John F. Scott, Before Cortés, Sculpture of Middle America: A Centennial Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from September 30, 1970 through January 3, 1971, exh. cat. (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1970), 52, fig. 3.

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Object/Work type

masks (costume)

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