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Collections

Figure with Hand on Cheek500 BCE–500 CE

Not on view
Small stone sculpture of a kneeling nude figure with hands raised to face, wearing large circular ear disks, carved from coarse ash-gray stone

Unknown, Figure with Hand on Cheek, 500 BCE–500 CE, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Muñoz Kramer Collection, gift of Camilla Chandler Frost and Stephen and Claudia Muñoz-Kramer, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Title
Figure with Hand on Cheek
Culture
Tumaco-La Tolita
Place Made
Colombia and Ecuador, Pacific Coast (Tumaco-La Tolita Tradition)
Date Made
500 BCE–500 CE
Medium
Earthenware
Dimensions
6 11/16 × 3 in. (17.02 × 7.62 cm)
Credit Line
The Muñoz Kramer Collection, gift of Camilla Chandler Frost and Stephen and Claudia Muñoz-Kramer
Accession Number
M.2007.146.532
Classification
Ceramics
Collecting Area
Art of the Ancient Americas
Selected Bibliography
  • Burtenshaw, Julia, Héctor García Botero, Diana Magaloni, and María Alicia Uribe Villegas. The Portable Universe = El Universo en tus Manos: Thought and Splendor of Indigenous Colombia. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2022.