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Collections

Fish-form Grater500 BCE–500 CE

Not on view
Stone object carved in the shape of a flat fish, with a recessed rectangular well filled with densely carved scale texture in low relief, olive-gray patina
Title
Fish-form Grater
Culture
Tumaco-La Tolita
Place Made
Colombia and Ecuador, Pacific Coast (Tumaco-La Tolita Tradition)
Date Made
500 BCE–500 CE
Medium
Ceramic with stone flakes
Dimensions
3 3/4 × 11 1/2 × 1/2 in. (9.5 × 29.2 × 1.3 cm)
Credit Line
The Muñoz Kramer Collection, gift of Camilla Chandler Frost and Stephen and Claudia Muñoz-Kramer
Accession Number
M.2007.146.580
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.