Jar with Appliqued Heads

Unidentified Greater Chiriquí maker

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Pre-Columbian

Buff terracotta with buff slip and red and black paint

Overall: 5 1/2 × 5 3/16 in. (13.9 × 13.1 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Arthur F. Gray, Class of 1911P

34.5.4880

Geography

Place Made: Panama, Central America

Object Name

Pottery

Research Area

Americas

Not on view

Provenance

Collected by Arthur Fairfield Gray [1855-1944, father of Arthur Harrison Gray, Class of 1911, 1888-1961), Watertown, Massachusetts, near David, Province of Chiriqui, Panama; given to present collection, 1934.

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