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Effigy Pot

Effigy Pot, between 100 and 800

  • Moche, Precolumbian

Clay

  • Overall: 11 × 5 7/8 × 6 7/8 inches (27.9 × 14.9 × 17.5 cm)

Gift of Lillian Henkel Haass

55.335

Department

Africa, Oceania & Indigenous Americas

Details

1955-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Bulletin of the DIA 35, no. 3 (1955/1956): 62-75, p. 66 (ill.).

Moche, Precolumbian, Effigy Pot, between 100 and 800, clay. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Lillian Henkel Haass, 55.335.

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