Hollow Female Figure

Unidentified Early Coastal Culture maker

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2100-1700 BCE

Terracotta with orange slip

Overall: 6 5/16 × 3 1/4 × 1 3/16 in. (16 × 8.3 × 3 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Richard J. MacCornack, Class of 1937

56.12.13583

Geography

Place Made: Peru, South America

Period

2000-1000 BCE

Object Name

Figure

Research Area

Americas

Not on view

Course History

ANTH 5, Reconstructing the Past: Introduction to Archaeology, Alan Covey, Spring 2012

ANTH 5, Reconstructing the Past: Introduction to Archaeology, Alan Covey, Spring 2013

ANTH 5, Reconstructing the Past: Introduction to Archaeology, Alan Covey, Spring 2013

ANTH 5, Introduction to Archaeology, Alan Covey, Spring 2014

ANTH 5, Introduction to Archaeology, Alan Covey, Spring 2014

Exhibition History

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

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. 17.

Provenance

Acquired in Peru by Richard John MacCornack (1914-1998), Boulder, Colorado, about 1938; given to present collection, 1956.

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