Vessel Depicting "Spotted Cat" with Serpentine Body

Unidentified Nasca (Nazca) maker

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Early Nasca, 200-400

Terracotta

Overall: 6 1/16 × 6 5/8 × 6 5/8 in. (15.4 × 16.9 × 16.8 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Meryl Landmann French and Kathleen Landmann Bissett

2013.62.23

Geography

Place Made: Peru, South America

Period

1-500

Object Name

Vessel

Research Area

Americas

Not on view

Provenance

Collected by Frederick E. (1907-2003) and Constance M. (1912-2011) Landmann, date unknown; bequeathed to their daughters, Meryl Landmann French, West Dover, Vermont and Kathleen Landmann Bissett, Waterloo, Ontario; given to present, 2013.

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