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Collections

Sea Lion with Headdress and Pectoral500 BCE–500 CE

Not on view
Small carved stone sculpture of a supernatural figure with wide open mouth, bulging eyes, scrolling brow, dotted collar, and hollow opening at the top of the head
Stone sculpture of a crouching supernatural creature with open jaws and prominent teeth, a cylindrical hollow at the crown, beaded collar, and flanking ribbed wing-like elements on a flat rectangular base.
Title
Sea Lion with Headdress and Pectoral
Culture
Tumaco-La Tolita
Place Made
Colombia and Ecuador, Pacific Coast (Tumaco-La Tolita Tradition)
Date Made
500 BCE–500 CE
Medium
Ceramic
Dimensions
6 1/4 × 6 1/4 in. (15.9 × 15.9 cm)
Credit Line
The Muñoz Kramer Collection, gift of Camilla Chandler Frost and Stephen and Claudia Muñoz-Kramer
Accession Number
M.2007.146.556
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.