Vessel in the Form of a Human Face
Unidentified Moche (Mochica) maker
100-500
Terracotta
Overall: 6 1/8 × 3 3/4 in. (15.5 × 9.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Glover Street Hastings III
181.2.26082
Geography
Place Made: Peru, South America
Period
1-500
Object Name
Pottery
Research Area
Americas
Not on view
Provenance
Charles F. Schwing (1875-about 1954), Greenville, South Carolina; sold to Glover Street Hastings III, West Newton, Massachusetts and Bridgeton, Maine, 1930's; bequeathed to his daughter, Carlena Hastings Redfield (1888-1981), 1949; bequeathed to present collection [under the terms of her father's will], 1981.
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