Unknown Central and South American
Scale Balance with Birds

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Public Domain

Scale Balance with Birds
Artist
CultureNasca
Titles
  • Scale Balance with Birds
Datec. 400–800 AD
PlacePeru, South America
MediumBone
Dimensions3/4 × 4 5/16 × 1/8 in. (1.9 × 11.0 × 0.3 cm)
Credit LineGift of Alfred C. Glassell, Jr.
Object number2001.1141
Not on view

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Department
Art of the Indigenous Americas, Glassell Collection
Object Type
ProvenanceAlfred C. Glassell, Jr. Collection, Houston [Glassell Album #7, slide dated "MAR- JUL 71"];
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2001, 2001.1141

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