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Masked-Figure Pendant


Veraguas, Period V or VI
700-1500 CE
5.72 cm x 4.13 cm x 1.91 cm (2 1/4 in. x 1 5/8 in. x 3/4 in.)
tumbaga
PC.B.344

Not on view


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Bibliography
Benson, Elizabeth P. 1963 Handbook of the Robert Woods Bliss Collection of Pre-Columbian Art. Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard University, Washington, D.C., p. 49, cat. 272.

Bliss, Robert Woods 1957 Pre-Columbian Art: The Robert Woods Bliss Collection. Text and Critical Analyses by S. K. Lothrop, Joy Mahler and William F. Foshag. Phaidon, New York. p. 266, cat. 241, pl. CII.

Hollenbach, Marion G. 1940 Pre-Columbian Art. Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles. cat. 12.



Exhibition History
"Pre-Columbian Art", Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles CA, March 15 to April 30, 1940.

"Indigenous Art of the Americas", National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, November 1952 to July 1962.


Acquisition History
Formerly in the collection of Miss Olga Kelly, Baltimore, Maryland.

Purchased from Miss Olga Kelly, Baltimore, Maryland, by Robert Woods Bliss, June 28, 1948.

Robert Woods Bliss Collection of Pre-Columbian Art, Washington, DC, 1948-1962.

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Pre-Columbian Collection, Washington, DC.


Object Last Modified: 11/16/2023