Owl's Head Fragment
Unidentified Zapotec maker
about 600-700
Terracotta
Overall: 5 1/16 × 2 9/16 in. (12.8 × 6.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Acquired by exchange from the Museum of the American Indian, New York, New York
55.6.13256
Geography
Place Made: Oaxaca, Mexico, North America
Period
500-1000
Object Name
Figure
Research Area
Americas
Not on view
Provenance
Collected by Henry Blake and Benjamin Massey; Museum of the American Indian, New York, New York; acquired by present collection in exhange #84, 1955.
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