Yoke with Skeletal Face and Knotted Serpent Artist: Unknown

A.D. 600–900

Art of the Ancient Americas

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Medium

Volcanic rock, basalt? (with Contemporary carving?)

Dimensions

16 1/4 × 15 1/8 in. (41.3 × 38.4 cm)

Credit Line

Stephen Carlton Clark, B.A. 1903, Fund

Accession Number

1973.88.25

Geography

Mexico

Culture

Mexico, Gulf Coast

Period

Late Classic Period

Classification

Sculpture

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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
  • 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
  • "Acquisitions, 1973," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin 35, no. 1 (Summer 1974), 77, ill
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

yokes (animal equipment)

Subject

rattlesnakes

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