Architectural Element from Quirigua

Unidentified Maya maker

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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

Spanish 9.02, Culture and Conversation, Mauricio Acuna, Spring 2024

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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