Late Horizon Spoon with Bird

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Late Horizon Spoon with Bird
CultureChimú or Inca (Inka)
Titles
  • Late Horizon Spoon with Bird
Date1200–1500 AD
PlacePeru, South America
MediumBone
DimensionsOverall: 6 1/4 × 3/4 × 1/4 in. (15.9 × 1.9 × 0.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of Alfred C. Glassell, Jr.
Object number2001.1140
Not on view

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Department
Art of the Indigenous Americas, Glassell Collection
Object Type
Provenance(Sold at Sotheby's NY, 11.22.1993, lot #163 as part of a group of five objects);
Alfred C. Glassell, Jr. Collection, Houston;
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2001, 2001.1140

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