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Art of the Ancient Americas
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Yoke with Skeletal Face and Knotted Serpent
A.D. 600–900
Volcanic rock, basalt? (with Contemporary carving?)
41.3 × 38.4 cm (16 1/4 × 15 1/8 in.)
Stephen Carlton Clark, B.A. 1903, Fund
1973.88.25
Geography:
Mexico
Culture:
Mexico, Gulf Coast
Period:
Late Classic Period
Classification:
Sculpture
Provenance:
Alfred Stendahl (1915–2010), Los Angeles, to 1956; 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, ill.
Handbook of the Collections, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 315, ill.
George A. Kubler, ed., Pre-Columbian Art of Mexico and Central America (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1986), 71, 236–37, no. 109, roll out drawing on page 237, fig. 58.
Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.
