Cup with Three Registers of Trophy Heads
Unidentified Nasca (Nazca) maker
Early or Middle Nasca, about 400
Terracotta with gray, white, ochre, orange, red and black slip
Overall: 2 3/4 × 3 15/16 in. (7 × 10 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Frederick E. and Constance M. Landmann
987.48.26890
Geography
Place Made: Southern or Central Nasca Region, Peru, South America
Period
1-500
Object Name
Pottery
Research Area
Americas
Not on view
Course History
Environmental Studies 26.01, Soil Ecological Systems, Bala Chaudary, Spring 2023
Anthropology 3.01, Introduction to Anthropology, Charis Ford Morrison Boke, Summer 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.
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. 40.
Pigment of Imagination, Class of 1967 Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, April 15-August 5, 2022.
Provenance
Collected by Frederick E. (1907-2003) and Constance M. (1912-2011) Landmann, Hanover, New Hampshire; given to present, 1987.
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