Fragments of household idols - 53 face forms
Unidentified Tarascan maker
Pre-Columbian
Terracotta
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Lydia G. Hutchinson, in memory of her husband, Paul Lockhart Hutchinson, Class of 1920
181.18.26261
Geography
Place Made: Tzintuntzan, Mexico, North America
Object Name
Figure
Research Area
Americas
Not on view
Provenance
Collected by Ray Cote, owner of an Inn in Tzintzuntzan, Mexico, from a plowed field in 1930; Paul Lochart Hutchinson (1898-1971), Class of 1920 and Lydia G. Hutchinson (1907-1985), North Palm Beach, Florida; given to present collection, 1981.
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