Vessel in the Form of a Human Face

Unidentified Moche (Mochica) maker

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100-500

Terracotta

Overall: 6 1/8 × 3 3/4 in. (15.5 × 9.5 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Glover Street Hastings III

181.2.26082

Geography

Place Made: Peru, South America

Period

1-500

Object Name

Pottery

Research Area

Americas

Not on view

Provenance

Charles F. Schwing (1875-about 1954), Greenville, South Carolina; sold to Glover Street Hastings III, West Newton, Massachusetts and Bridgeton, Maine, 1930's; bequeathed to his daughter, Carlena Hastings Redfield (1888-1981), 1949; bequeathed to present collection [under the terms of her father's will], 1981.

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