About the Artwork
Female Figure
between 100 BCE and 400 CE
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Precolumbian
Nayarit
Polychromed clay
Overall: 16 × 8 1/2 × 7 3/8 inches (40.6 × 21.6 × 18.7 cm)
Ceramics
Indigenous Americas
Founders Society Purchase, Henry Ford II Fund, Benson and Edith Ford Fund, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Buhl Ford II Fund, Alan, Marianne and Marc Schwartz Fund, with funds from Lois and Avern Cohn, Robert B. Jacobs, Milford Nemer, Margaret H. Demant, and Mr. and Mrs. William L. Kahn
1999.5
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
1999-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Nayarit, Precolumbian, Female Figure, between 100 BCE and 400 CE, polychromed clay. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Henry Ford II Fund, Benson and Edith Ford Fund, et al., 1999.5.
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