Jar in the Form of a Tapir

Unidentified Greater Chiriquí maker

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about 1100-1500

Terracotta with buff slip and red and black paint

Overall: 7 5/8 × 5 1/2 × 3 11/16 in. (19.3 × 14 × 9.4 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Margaret Barnhill Roosevelt Kimberly

22.5.3944

Geography

Place Made: Panama, Central America

Period

1000-1400

Object Name

Pottery

Research Area

Americas

Not on view

Provenance

Margaret Barnhill Roosevelt Kimberly (1851-1927), West Newton, Massachusetts; given to the present collection, 1922.

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