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Cigar Smoker
A.D. 1000
Stone (porphyritic basalt)
12.1 × 7.6 × 10.2 cm (4 3/4 × 3 × 4 in.)
Gift of Stanley Josephson
1984.118.1
Geography:
Costa Rica
Culture:
Costa Rica, Atlantic Watershed, Period V
Period:
11th century
Classification:
Sculpture
Bibliography:
“Acquisitions 1984,” Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin 39, no. 3 (Winter 1986): 83.
Handbook of the Collections, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 321, 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.
