Art of the Ancient Americas
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Artist: Unknown

Jaguar head of a GI type deity, probably an inset from a waist or chest assumblage

100 B.C.–A.D. 100

Marble/limestone with possible traces of cinnabar

9 × 9.8 cm (3 9/16 × 3 7/8 in.)
Leonard C. Hanna, Jr., Class of 1913, Fund
1989.37.1
Geography: 
Mexico
Status: 
By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Culture: 
Mexico, Proto-Maya
Period: 
Earyl Classic Period
Classification: 
Sculpture
Bibliography: 

“Acquisitions 1989,” Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (1990): 123.

Handbook of the Collections, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 317, ill.

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