Quilla (Moon Man)

Provenance

Rosa Gualinga, Montalvo and Puyo, Ecuador, 2008; sold to the Sacha Runa Research Foundation, Urbana, IL, 2008 [according to correspondence from Norman Whitten, President, Sacha Runa Research Foundation, in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2020.

Quilla (Moon Man)

Canelos Quichua

2008

Accession Number

256300

Medium

Ceramic, pigment, and shinquillu lacquer, possibly from the Brazilian Elemi (Protium heptophyllum)

Dimensions

17.8 × 7.6 × 8.3 cm (7 × 3 × 3 1/4 in.)

Classification

N/A

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Arnold H. Crane Endowment Fund