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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.1246
People
Unidentified Artist
Title
Totonac Yoke with Hands and Mask
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture
Date
4th-7th century
Culture
Mexican
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/229807

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Dark green basalt
Dimensions
12.38 x 37.47 x 40.01 cm (4 7/8 x 14 3/4 x 15 3/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
?Collection of Lewis H. Stanton. [Brummer Gallery, New York, NY, November, 1941, sold;] to Grenville L. Winthrop, bequeathed; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.1246
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Chinese Sculpture, Bronzes, Jades, Paintings and Drawings, Egyptian and Persian sculpture, Pre-Columbian art; selected from the collection of Grenville Lindall Winthrop, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1943), p. 8
  • Alfred H. Kidder, Jr., "Mexican Stone Yokes", Bulletin of the Fogg Art Museum (January 1949), vol. XI, no. 1, p. 7, figs. 4 and 5
  • George M. A. Hanfmann and Benjamin Rowland, "Ancient Arts at the Fogg Museum", Archaeology (Autumn 1954), vol. 7, no. 3, p. 130, p. 137
  • Tatiana Proskouriakoff, Varieties of Central Classic Veracruz Sculpture, Carnegie Institution of Washington (Washington, DC, 1954), pp. 72-78; fig. 3, no. 21
  • Dorothy W. Gillerman, ed., Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1969), no. 126, pp. 198-199, fig. 126
  • Kristin A. Mortimer and William G. Klingelhofer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press (Cambridge and New York, 1986), no. 1, repr.

Exhibition History

  • Chinese sculpture, bronzes, jades, paintings and drawings, Egyptian and Persian sculpture, Pre-Columbian art : selected from the collection of Grenville Lindall Winthrop, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 10/01/1943 - 02/28/1944

Verification Level

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