Figurine Fragment

87-42-687

From: Mexico (Central America) | Mexico City | Teotihuacan (Mexico)

Curatorial Section: American

Object Number 87-42-687
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Toltec
Provenience Mexico (Central America) | Mexico City | Teotihuacan (Mexico)
Culture Area Central American
Period Toltec I
Section American
Materials Ceramic
Description

Terra cotta. Primitive; slit eye and applied ornaments. Wearing ear-discs and leather band with paper discs, distinctive of priests of the sun. Anciently attached to perishable body.

terracotta head

Mrs. Nuttall's Class III

Credit Line Gift of American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, 1987
Other Number 12303 - ANSP Number | L-83-631 - Old Museum Number

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