Figurine
Unidentified Zapotec maker
Pre-Columbian
Terracotta
Overall: 1 3/4 × 1 1/2 × 1 1/4 in. (4.5 × 3.8 × 3.2 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Aurellia T. and Gordon Arnold Meader, Class of 1919
166.28.16094
Geography
Place Made: Oaxaca, Mexico, North America
Object Name
Figure
Research Area
Americas
Not on view
Provenance
Collected by an American Consul in Oaxaca, Mexico between 1892-1912; acquired by Carlton Crosby, Brooklyn, Massachusetts, about 1912-1914 [for Gordon Meader]; acquired by Gordon Meader (1896-1974), St. Davis, Pennsylvania, about 1912-1914; lent to Dr. Henry Libby, Libby Museum, Wolfeboro, New Hampshire until 1930; given to the present collection, 1966.
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