Provenance
Filomina Santamaría, Ñucanchi Allpa-Puyu, Ecuador, 1986; sold to the Sacha Runa Research Foundation, Urbana, IL, 1986 [according to correspondence from Norman Whitten, President, Sacha Runa Research Foundation, in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2020.
Accession Number
256298
Medium
Ceramic, pigment, and shinquillu lacquer, possibly from the Brazilian Elemi (Protium heptophyllum)
Dimensions
14.6 × 16.5 × 10.3 cm (5 3/4 × 6 1/2 × 4 in.)
Classification
N/A
Credit Line
Arnold H. Crane Endowment Fund
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