Seal or Stamp

Unidentified Maya maker

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Pre-Columbian

Red terracotta

Overall: 2 1/16 × 1 11/16 × 1 in. (5.3 × 4.3 × 2.5 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Mrs. Victor M. Cutter, Class of 1903W

38.12.5632

Geography

Place Made: Birichiche, Villanueva, Ulúa River Valley, Honduras, Central America

Object Name

Written Communication: Seal

Research Area

Americas

Not on view

Provenance

Collected by Victor Macomber Cutter (1881-1952), early 1900's; lent to present collection, 1938-1953; bequeathed to Florence Edith deJongh Cutter (1885-1957), 1952; given to present collection, 1953.

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