Figure in Ceremonial Dress Effigy Rattle

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Figure in Ceremonial Dress Effigy Rattle

Date600–900 AD

MediumEarthenware with traces of pigment

Dimensions7 3/8 × 5 1/2 × 2 3/8 in. (18.7 × 14 × 6 cm)

Credit LineGift of Frank Carroll

Object number2015.290

Current Location

The Caroline Wiess Law Building

205M Wiess Gallery

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Department

Art of the Indigenous Americas

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CERAMICS

ProvenanceFrell Albright (1922–1987), Houston, until d. 1987; Estate of Frell Albright, 1987–1989; [Sotheby's, New York, November 20, 1989, lot 129]; purchased by Frank Carroll, Houston, November 20, 1989–2015; given to MFAH, 2015.
Exhibition History"Pre-Columbian Art in New York: Selections from Private Collections," The Museum of Primitive Art, New York [possibly], September 12–November 9, 1969.

"God, Man, and Animal: Pre-Columbian Art from Private Collections in Houston and Austin," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, March 3–June 3, 1990.

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