Utilitarian Pot
Unidentified Nasca (Nazca) maker
Early Nasca, about 400
Terracotta
Overall: 4 5/16 × 4 15/16 × 3 13/16 in. (10.9 × 12.5 × 9.7 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of the Estate of Barbara L. DeYoung
2013.76.5
Geography
Place Made: Southern Nasca region, Peru, South America
Period
1-500
Object Name
Pottery
Research Area
Americas
Not on view
Provenance
Acquired by Barbara Louise DeYoung (1927-2011) in Peru, in the late 1950's-1960's; given to the Dartmouth College Anthropology Department through her family; transferred from the Anthropology Department to the present collection, 2013.
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