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Hacha600–900 CE

Not on view
Small terracotta-brown stone sculpture of a crouching figure, deeply hunched with a horseshoe-shaped arch over the back and carved facial features at the base

Unknown, Hacha, 600–900 CE, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Phil Berg Collection, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Title
Hacha
Culture
Totonac
Place Made
Mexico, Veracruz
Date Made
600–900 CE
Medium
Andesite stone
Dimensions
Height: 9 1/2 in. (24.13 cm)
Credit Line
The Phil Berg Collection
Accession Number
M.71.73.184
Classification
Stone
Collecting Area
Art of the Ancient Americas
Selected Bibliography
  • Berg, Phil. Man Came This Way: Objects from the Phil Berg Collection. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1971.

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