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Art of the Ancient Americas
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Shell fragment with Mayan glyphs
A.D. 600–900
Shell
4.1 × 3.2 cm (1 5/8 × 1 1/4 in.)
Stephen Carlton Clark, B.A. 1903, Fund
1973.88.34h
Geography:
Guatemala
or geography Mexico
Culture:
Mexico or Guatemala, Maya, Chiapas or El Peten
Period:
Late Classic Period
Classification:
Inscriptions
Provenance:
Fred H. Olsen (1891–1986), and Florence Quittenton Olsen, Guilford, Conn.; gift in 1973 to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography:
“Acquisitions, 1973,” Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin 35, no. 1 (Summer 1974): 78.
George A. Kubler, ed., Pre-Columbian Art of Mexico and Central America (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1986), 142–43, 304, no. 311, fig. 159.
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