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Disk Ornament with a Figure of a Squatting Human

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Disk Ornament with a Figure of a Squatting Human
Artist
CultureCalima (possibly)
Titles
  • Disk Ornament with a Figure of a Squatting Human
Date1–800 AD
PlaceColombia
MediumGold
DimensionsOverall: 6 7/8 × 6 3/4 × 3/4 in. (17.5 × 17.1 × 1.9 cm)
Credit LineGift of Alfred C. Glassell, Jr.
Object number2010.747
Not on view

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Department
Art of the Indigenous Americas, Glassell Collection
Object Type
ProvenanceAlfred C. Glassell, Jr. (1913–2008), Houston, by at least 1999–2008 [1]; Estate of Alfred C. Glassell, Jr., 2008–2010; given to MFAH, 2010.

[1] Glassell inventory, precedes object described March 19, 1999.

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