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Young Woman500 BCE–500 CE

On view:
Geffen Galleries, Pacific Connections in the Ancient Americas
Small pre-Columbian ceramic standing figure with rough sandy tan surface, incised necklace, circular hole in abdomen, and banded ankles
Title
Young Woman
Culture
Tumaco-La Tolita
Place Made
Colombia and Ecuador, Pacific Coast (Tumaco-La Tolita Tradition)
Date Made
500 BCE–500 CE
Medium
Earthenware
Dimensions
13 1/2 × 4 3/4 in. (34.3 × 12.1 cm)
Credit Line
The Muñoz Kramer Collection, gift of Camilla Chandler Frost and Stephen and Claudia Muñoz-Kramer
Accession Number
M.2007.146.507
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.

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