Standing Warrior with Trophy Head

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CultureAtlantic Watershed

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Standing Warrior with Trophy Head

Date700–1100 AD

PlaceCosta Rica

MediumVolcanic stone

Dimensions26 × 17 1/2 × 7 3/4in. (66 × 44.5 × 19.7cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Allen H. Carruth and Alfred C. Glassell, Jr. in honor of Meredith J. Long at "One Great Night in November, 1992"

Object number92.454

Not on view

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Department

Art of the Indigenous Americas

Object Type

SCULPTURE

Provenance[Stendahl Galleries, Los Angeles, until 1992]; purchased by MFAH, 1992.

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