Statue Fragment (Stone Head) | Yale University Art Gallery

A.D. 750–1000

This small sculpture, which is iconographically and stylistically similar to the enormous freestanding monoliths of Tiahuanaco, once had a backward-projecting tenon for insertion into a wall. Similar tenoned heads stud the walls surrounding the sunken courtyards of Tiahuanaco, an impressive ancient city in the highlands of Bolivia near Lake Titicaca.

Medium: Andesite
Dimensions: 6 9/16 in. (16.7 cm)
Credit Line: Bruce B. Dayton, B.A. 1940, Fund
Accession Number: 1958.76
Geography: Bolivia
Culture: Bolivia, Tiwanaku Culture
Period: Middle Horizon
Classification: Sculpture
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Bibliography

Elise K. Kenney, ed., Handbook of the Collections: Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 322, ill

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No Copyright - United States

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Object/Work type

fragments, human figures (visual works)

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