Loom Post with Carved Finial Figure

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Loom Post with Carved Finial Figure

Date1100–1450 AD

PlacePeru

MediumWood

DimensionsOverall: 36 1/2 × 3 × 3/4 in. (92.7 × 7.6 × 1.9 cm)

Credit LineGift of Alfred C. Glassell, Jr.

Object number2010.1094

Not on view

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Department

Art of the Indigenous Americas, Glassell Collection

Object Type

WOOD OBJECTS

Provenance[Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, May 12, 1979, lot 102]; purchased by Alfred C. Glassell, Jr. (1913–2008), Houston, May 12, 1979–until d. 2008; Estate of Alfred C. Glassell, Jr., 2008–2010; given to MFAH, 2010.

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