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Date Range
Pitao 350 - 500 d.C.
Subject Institution/ Collection
Museum der Weltkulturen, Frankfurt, Alemania
Provenance
Gustave Bellon; Galerie Carrefour, Paris, 1941
Description
Barro beige con vestigios de pigmento rojo.
Notes or Gallery Text
Photograph in AMNH shows this object in the Bellon collection. This piece has a great deal of damage to the headdress. It is very similar to ROM 1948, and wears the same bucal mask corresponding to the glyph V (alligator).