Funerary Mask

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CultureSicán (Lambayeque)

Titles

Funerary Mask

Date800–1375 AD

PlacePeru

MediumGold with hematite or cinnabar

DimensionsOverall: 9 1/4 × 12 1/4 × 2 1/4 in. (23.5 × 31.1 × 5.7 cm)

Credit LineGift of Alfred C. Glassell, Jr.

Object number2010.445

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Department

Art of the Indigenous Americas, Glassell Collection

Object Type

METALWORK

Provenance(Previously at Bonham & Butterfields, San Francisco, sale #7546E, 6.14.2004, Lot #1069, p. 23);
(Lot #47189 in Heritage's Pre-Columbian Art Auction of The Hendershott Collection, Sept. 29, 2006);
Alfred C. Glassell, Jr. Collection, Houston;
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2010, 2010.445
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Printed bar code on verso of mount: RHC4A .000005 7546E

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