Labret in the Form of an Eagle Head

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Labret in the Form of an Eagle Head

Mexico, Puebla or Western Oaxaca, Mixtec-Puebla or International style, 1200–1500
Metal
Gold
1 × 1 × 1 in. (2.54 × 2.54 × 2.54 cm)
Gift of Constance McCormick Fearing (AC1992.134.29)
Art of the Ancient Americas
Currently on public view:
Resnick Pavilion, floor 1

Since gallery displays may change often, please contact us before you visit to make certain this item is on view.

Bibliography

  • Selections from the Pre-Columbian Collection of Constance McCormick Fearing. Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1967.

  • Katzew, Ilona, ed. Contested Visions in the Spanish Colonial World. Exh. Cat. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2011.

  • Selections from the Pre-Columbian Collection of Constance McCormick Fearing. Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1967.

  • Katzew, Ilona, ed. Contested Visions in the Spanish Colonial World. Exh. Cat. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2011.
  • Magaloni, Diana, Davide Domenici, and Alyce de Carteret. We Live in Painting: the Nature of Color in Mesoamerican Art. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2024.
  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art.  New York: Thames and Hudson, 2003.
  • Fields, Virginia M. Children of the Plumed Serpent: the Legacy of Quetzalcoatl in Ancient Mexico. London: Scala; Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2012.
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Exhibition history

  • Contested Visions in the Spanish Colonial World Los Angeles, CA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, November 6, 2011 - January 29, 2012