Architectural Element from Quirigua
Unidentified Maya maker
about 810
Sandstone
Overall: 9 3/8 × 5 9/16 × 8 1/4 in. (23.8 × 14.2 × 21 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Mrs. Victor M. Cutter, Class of 1903W
38.12.5537
Geography
Place Made: Quiriguá, Guatemala, Central America
Period
500-1000
Object Name
Building Component
Research Area
Americas
Not on view
Course History
ARTH 7, Learning from Dartmouth: Lessons in Visual Culture, Marlene Heck, Winter 2013
GERM 13.01, Beyond Good and Evil, Veronika Fuechtner, Fall 2022
Publication History
Matthew Looper, "The Stone Tenoned Heads from Quirigua Structure 1B-1", in Glyph Dwellers, a publication of the Maya Hieroglyphic Database Project at California State University, Chico, Report 79, September 2022, pp.1-28, ill. p. 14, fig. 11.
Provenance
From Quiriguá, Guatemala; collected by Victor Macomber Cutter (1881-1952), early 1900's; lent to present collection, 1938-1953; bequeathed to Florence deJongh Cutter (1885-1957),1953; given to present collection, 1953.
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