Figurine head fragment | Yale University Art Gallery

ca. 1500

Medium: Ceramic
Dimensions: 1 13/16 × 2 5/16 × 1 9/16 in. (4.6 × 5.8 × 4 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Roderick M. Engert, B.A. 1950
Accession Number: 1980.39.11
Geography: El Salvador
Culture: El Salvador, Guachipilín
Period: Late Postclassic Period
Classification: Sculpture
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Provenance

Said to have been found in 1868, buried at Guachpilin, near Santa Ana, El Salvador, by Alpheus Starkey Williams, class of 1831

Bibliography

George A. Kubler, ed., Pre-Columbian Art of Mexico and Central America (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1986), 197, 371, no. 434, fig. 258

"Acquisitions 1980," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin 38, no. 2 (Winter 1982), 74

Object copyright

Additional information

Object/Work type

figurines, fragments, human figures (visual works)

hollow

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