"Horned" Male (Dwarf?)
100 BC-AD 300
Maker Unknown
Art of the Americas
"Horned" Male (Dwarf?), 100 BC-AD 300. West Mexico, Colima, Comala style (200 BC-AD 300). Earthenware with colored slips, black burial deposits; overall: 41.5 x 24.9 x 24.7 cm (16 5/16 x 9 13/16 x 9 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Fiftieth anniversary gift of the Womens Council in honor of the Museum's Seventy-fifth anniversary 1991.20 This figure’s “horn” may be the spire of a conch shell, a reference to fertility.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Formatted Medium
- earthenware with colored slips, black burial deposits
- Dimensions
- Overall: 41.5 x 24.9 x 24.7 cm (16 5/16 x 9 13/16 x 9 3/4 in.)
- Departments
- Art of the Americas
- Accession Number
- 1991.20
- Credit Line
- Fiftieth anniversary gift of the Womens Council in honor of the Museum's Seventy-fifth anniversary
- Exhibitions
- Notable Acquisitions, Signs of Affection: Gifts Honoring the Museum's 75th Anniversary, The Art and Archaeology of Ancient West Mexico
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 233 Mesoamerican and Intermediate Region
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