Hollow Female Figure
Unidentified Early Coastal Culture maker
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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