(Forgery) Strap-Handled Single-Spout Effigy Vessel of a Mummy Bundle

Unidentified Nasca (Nazca) Style maker

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Terracotta with red, black, white, orange, ochre, and brown slip

Overall: 7 1/2 × 4 3/4 in. (19 × 12 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Museum Purchase

43.4.8579

Geography

Place Made: Peru, South America

Object Name

Pottery

Research Area

Americas

Not on view

Course History

ANTH 57, Origins of Inequality, Alan Covey, Winter 2013

ANTH 57, Origins of Inequality, Alan Covey, Winter 2013

ANTH 24, Early Civilizations of the Andes, Alan Covey, Spring 2014

ANTH 24, Early Civilizations of the Andes, Alan Covey, Spring 2014

HIST 63.02, Material Culture of Science, Whitney Barlow Robles, Spring 2021

ANTH 74, The Human Spectrum, Nate Dominy, Spring 2022

HIST 63.02, Material Culture of Science, Whitney Robles, Spring 2022

History 63.02, Reading Artifacts: The Material Culture of Science, Whitney Barlow Robles, Spring 2023

Exhibition History

Gene Y. Kim, Class of 1985, Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 18, 2005-January 21, 2008.

Objects and Power: Manifestations of Inequality, a student curated exhibition, Professor Alan Covey, ANTH 57, Winter 2013, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 10-August 25, 2013.

Oculate Beings and Horrible Birds: Image and Meaning in Ancient Andean Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 30, 1999-November 5, 2000, no. 37.

Provenance

John C. Wise (1902-1981) Ltd., New York; sold to present collection, 1943.

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