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Art of the Ancient Americas
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Llama
1450–1536
Gold
7 × 1.91 × 6.35 cm (2 3/4 × 3/4 × 2 1/2 in.)
Gift of the Austen-Stokes Ancient Americas Foundation
2016.61.4
Geography:
Central Andes, Peru
Status:
On view
Culture:
Central Andes, Inca
Period:
Late Horizon
Classification:
Sculpture
Provenance:
Private Collection, Switzerland; Sale, Sotheby's 8246 New York, sale no, 8246, November 17, 2006, lot 294; Austen-Stokes Ancient Americas Foundation; gift to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2016
This work appears on our "Antiquities and Archaeological Material with Provenance Documentation Gaps" page.
Bibliography:
“Acquisitions July 1, 2015–June 30, 2016,” https://artgallery.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/Pub_Bull_acquisitions_2016.pdf (accessed December 1, 2016).
Hasso Von Winning, Pre-Columbian Art of Mexico and Central America (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1968), 208, no. 279-280.
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.
