Haniwa Horse Head fragment
Unknown, Kofun Period, Japanese, 250 - 538
Kofun period, 3rd to 6th centuries AD
Terracotta fragment
Overall: 5 × 11 3/8 × 6 3/8 in. (12.7 × 28.9 × 16.2 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Collection of Roger Arvid Anderson, Class of 1968
EL.2017.1.1
Geography
Place Made: Japan, East Asia, Asia
Period
500-1000
Object Name
Figure
Research Area
Asia
Not on view
Provenance
Gump Family Collection, San Francisco, California; John Biard Hudson, San Francisco, California; sold to Roger Arvid Anderson, San Francisco, California, April 1975; on loan to present collection, 2017.
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