Art of the Ancient Americas
Public domain
Artist: Unknown

Yoke with Skeletal Face and Knotted Serpent

A.D. 600–900

Volcanic rock, basalt? (with Contemporary carving?)

41.3 x 38.4 cm (16 1/4 x 15 1/8 in.)
Stephen Carlton Clark, B.A. 1903, Fund
1973.88.25
Culture: 
Mexico, Gulf Coast
Period: 
Late Classic Period
Classification: 
Sculpture
Status: 
Not on view
Provenance: 

Stendahl gallery , to 1956; Fred Olsen, New Haven, Conn., to 1973; 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.

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.