Plaque with Rain Deity

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Plaque with Rain Deity

Mexico, Guerrero, Tabasco, or Veracruz, Olmec, 900–400 BCE
Stone
Serpentine
3 1/2 × 3 × 1 in. (8.89 × 7.62 × 2.54 cm)
Gift of Constance McCormick Fearing (M.86.311.1)
Not currently on public view

Bibliography

  • Berrin, Kathleen, and Virginia M. Fields, eds. Olmec: Colossal Masterworks of Ancient Mexico. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010.
  • Selections from the Pre-Columbian Collection of Constance McCormick Fearing. Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1967.

  • Berrin, Kathleen, and Virginia M. Fields, eds. Olmec: Colossal Masterworks of Ancient Mexico. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010.
  • Selections from the Pre-Columbian Collection of Constance McCormick Fearing. Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1967.

  • O'Neil, Megan E. Forces of Nature: Ancient Maya Arts from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Beijing Shi: Wen wu chu ban she, 2018.
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