Hacha in the Form of a Skull

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Artist Unknown Central and South American

CultureClassic Veracruz

Titles

Hacha in the Form of a Skull

Date600–900

OriginMexico, Gulf Coast

MediumGreenstone

Dimensions8 × 6 1/4 × 3 in. (20.3 × 15.9 × 7.6 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Alfred C. Glassell, Jr. Accessions Endowment

Object number2018.38

Current Location

The Caroline Wiess Law Building

205M Wiess Gallery

On view

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Department

Art of the Indigenous Americas

Object Type

TOOLS, IMPLEMENTS & WEIGHTS

ProvenanceMr. and Mrs. Miles Lourie, New York, by 1969; sold at [Sotheby’s New York, May 14, 1991, lot 200]; purchased by private collection, 1991; sold at [Binoche et Giquello, Paris, March 20, 2018, lot 40]; purchased by the MFAH, 2018.

Exhibition History"Precolumbian Art in New York: Selections from Private Collections," The Museum of Primitive Art, New York, September 12–November 9, 1969.
Published References Julie Jones, Precolumbian Art in New York: Selections from Private Collections (New York: The Museum of Primitive Art, 1969), fig. 77. Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Label in pen and ink on base: [indecipherable] / 744.79
Label in white printed ink on base: GR / 689

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