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Art of the Ancient Americas
Artist: Unknown
Headrest
100 B.C.–A.D. 250
Ceramic, highly burnished
21 × 29 × 28 cm (8 1/4 × 11 7/16 × 11 in.)
Gift of Florence Olsen in memory of Fred Olsen
1987.87.1
Geography:
Mexico
Culture:
Mexico, Colima, Comala Style
Period:
Protoclassic Period
Classification:
Furniture
Bibliography:
“Acquisitions 1985–1987,” Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin 40, no. 2 (Spring 1988): 131, ill.
R. Tripp Evans, “Navigating the Afterlife: Two Shaft Tomb Figures from Ancient West Mexico,” Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (1995–96): 28–31, fig. 1–3.
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.