Mother and Child Figure
Unidentified Greater Chiriquí maker
1200-1550
Buff terracotta, slip, and paint
Overall: 5 1/16 × 4 3/16 × 2 15/16 in. (12.8 × 10.7 × 7.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Barrett
38.76.6523
Geography
Place Made: Costa Rica, Central America
Period
1000-1400
Object Name
Figure
Research Area
Americas
Not on view
Course History
ANTH 5, Reconstructing the Past: Introduction to Archaeology, Alan Covey, Spring 2012
ANTH 5, Reconstructing the Past: Introduction to Archaeology, Alan Covey, Spring 2013
ANTH 5, Reconstructing the Past: Introduction to Archaeology, Alan Covey, Spring 2013
ANTH 5, Introduction to Archaeology, Alan Covey, Spring 2014
ANTH 5, Introduction to Archaeology, Alan Covey, Spring 2014
Exhibition History
Globalization in Ancient Costa Rican Arts, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 25-October 1, 2006.
Provenance
Collected by Dr. John Barrett (1866-1938, Class of 1889), probably during the time he was the U.S. Minister to Panama, 1904-1905; bequeathed to Mr. and Mrs. John Walton Barrett [his nephew], Freeport, Illinois; given to present collection, 1938.
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