SPECIAL ADVISORY: The Yale University Art Gallery is open to the public with expanded hours on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays and offers access to Yale ID holders on weekdays. Learn More

Art of the Ancient Americas
Public domain
Maker: Unknown

Head fragment from hollow figure

1500–900 B.C.

Ceramic

13.653 × 8.255 × 8.573 cm (5 3/8 × 3 1/4 × 3 3/8 in.)
Gift of Peter David Joralemon, B.A. 1969, M.Phil 1974
2008.215.4
Status: 
By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Culture: 
Olmec
Period: 
Early Formative Period
Classification: 
Sculpture
Provenance: 

Purchased by David Bramhall in the late 1960s.

Bibliography: 

“Acquisitions 2009,” Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2009): 144.

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.