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

Status:

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center

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.

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