Funerary Urn Fragment
Unidentified Zapotec maker
Monte Alban III, about 300-600
Terracotta
Overall: 11 7/16 × 6 7/8 in. (29 × 17.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Acquired by exchange from the Museum of the American Indian, New York, New York
55.6.13253
Geography
Place Made: Oaxaca, Mexico, North America
Period
1-500
Object Name
Pottery
Research Area
Americas
Funerary Objects
Not on view
Provenance
Carl Albert Purpus (1851-1941), Acatepec, Puebla, Mexico; Museum of the American Indian, New York, New York; acquired by present collection in exhange #84, 1955.
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