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Dancer with Snakes1000–500 BCE

Not on view
Ceramic pre-Columbian standing figure with incised headdress, open mouth, and traces of ochre and red pigment on buff clay

Unknown, Dancer with Snakes, 1000–500 BCE, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of the Art Museum Council in honor of the museum's twenty-fifth anniversary, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Title
Dancer with Snakes
Place Made
Mexico, Guerrero, Xochipala
Date Made
1000–500 BCE
Medium
Ceramic with postfire applied pigment
Dimensions
8 1/2 × 3 3/4 × 2 in. (21.59 × 9.53 × 5.08 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of the Art Museum Council in honor of the museum's twenty-fifth anniversary
Accession Number
M.90.168.51
Classification
Ceramics
Collecting Area
Art of the Ancient Americas