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Collections

Seated Figure with Headdress and Shield200 BCE–500 CE

Not on view
Small hand-modeled terracotta sculpture with a large flat oval disk above a squat seated figure, salmon-red clay with mottled rust patches

Unknown, Seated Figure with Headdress and Shield, 200 BCE–500 CE, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Phil Berg Collection, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Title
Seated Figure with Headdress and Shield
Culture
Nayarit
Place Made
Mexico, Nayarit
Date Made
200 BCE–500 CE
Medium
Slip-painted ceramic
Dimensions
Height: 5 3/8 in. (13.65 cm)
Credit Line
The Phil Berg Collection
Accession Number
M.71.73.203
Classification
Ceramics
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.