Potsherd Conventionalized Zoomorphic Head

Unidentified Taíno maker

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Pre-Columbian

Terracotta

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Lt. Col. Charles L. Youmans, Class of 1920

45.12.9209

Geography

Place Made: La Caleta, Dominican Republic, Caribbean, Central America

Object Name

Artifact

Research Area

Americas

Not on view

Provenance

Collected by Lt. Col. Charles Leroy Youmans (1898-1960), Class of 1920 (non-graduate); given to present collection, 1945.

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