Unknown Central and South American
Fish sinker with shell lure

Fish sinker with shell lure

Public Domain

Artist
CultureInca (Inka)
Titles
  • Fish sinker with shell lure
Date1200–1532 AD
PlacePeru
MediumStone, shell, and string
Dimensions7 1/2 × 1 × 3/4 in. (19.1 × 2.5 × 1.9 cm)
Credit LineGift of Alfred C. Glassell, Jr.
Object number2004.2439
Not on view

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Department
Art of the Indigenous Americas, Glassell Collection
Object Type
Provenance[David Bernstein Fine Art, New York, before November 1979] [1]; purchased by Alfred C. Glassell, Jr. (1913–2008), Houston, by at least November 1979–2004 [1]; given to MFAH, 2004.

[1] Glassell Album #9, near slide dated "NOV 79".

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