Llama Container (conopa)

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CultureInca (Inka)

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Llama Container (conopa)

Date1200–1532 AD

Possible placeBolivia

Possible placePeru

MediumStone

Dimensions3 1/4 × 3 1/8 × 1 5/8 inches

Credit LineGift of Alfred C. Glassell, Jr.

Object number2001.1146

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Department

Art of the Indigenous Americas, Glassell Collection

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Provenance(Lot #310 in Sotheby's Pre-Columbian Art Auction, November 23 & 24, 1982. Sale #4968);
Alfred C. Glassell, Jr. Collection, Houston, since at least 1980 [Glassell Album #10, slide dated "DEC 80"];
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2001, 2001.1146
Exhibition History“Fangs, Feathers, and Fins: Sacred Creatures in Ancient American Art,” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 15, 2014–March 22, 2015.

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