Incense Burner
Unidentified Aztec maker
Colonial
Hematite
Overall: 3 3/8 × 3 15/16 in. (8.6 × 10 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Glover Street Hastings III
181.2.26182
Geography
Place Made: Mexico, North America
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Ceremonial Artifact
Research Area
Americas
Not on view
Course History
Art History 20.04, Faith and Empire, Beth Mattison, Spring 2023
Provenance
Collected by Waddy Thompson, Jr. (1798-1868), Greenville, South Carolina, about 1820; 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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