Tripod Jar with Two Faces

Unidentified maker (Costa Rica)

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Pre-Columbian

Terracotta with applique

Overall: 4 5/16 × 2 15/16 in. (11 × 7.5 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Dr. Bradley M. Patten

171.29.25245

Geography

Place Made: Costa Rica, Central America

Object Name

Pottery

Research Area

Americas

Not on view

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 Professor William Patten (1861-1932, Class of 1908H, Dartmouth Professor of Zoology, 1893-1931); to his son Dr. Bradley M. Patten (1889-1971), Ann Arbor, Michigan; given to present collection, 1971.

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