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Collections

Standing Woman with Crescent-shaped Headunknown date

On view:
Geffen Galleries, Ancestral Ceramics from Panama and Colombia
Unglazed ceramic figurine with wide disk-like head lobes, simplified facial features, and rounded double-lobed lower body, in mottled tan and gray tones
Ceramic figurine with a stylized human form, featuring a wide, flat head with modeled facial features and dark painted areas around the eyes, small loop ears, stubby arm projections at the shoulders, and a rounded lower body divided into two bulbous lobes, in earthen tones of tan and gray.
Title
Standing Woman with Crescent-shaped Head
Culture
Zenú
Place Made
Colombia, Caribbean Lowlands, Sinú
Date Made
unknown date
Medium
Earthenware
Dimensions
10 1/2 × 7 × 3 1/4 in. (26.7 × 17.8 × 8.3 cm)
Credit Line
The Muñoz Kramer Collection, gift of Stephen and Claudia Muñoz-Kramer and Camilla Chandler Frost
Accession Number
M.2007.146.622
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.