Mother and Child Figure

Unidentified Greater Chiriquí maker

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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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