Seated Warrior Figure with Turtle Headdress, Holding a Staff

Arts of the Americas

100 BCE–250 CE

Colima
Colima, Mexico

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Culture: Colima
Title: Seated Warrior Figure with Turtle Headdress, Holding a Staff
Place: Colima state (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 100 BCE–250 CE
Medium: Ceramic and pigment
Dimensions: 28.6 × 22.9 × 16.8 cm (11 1/4 × 9 × 6 5/8 in.)
Credit Line: Bequest of Lester K. and Rosalyn W. Olin
Reference Number: 2014.988
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Richard Townsend with Elizabeth Pope, Indian Art of the Americas at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2016), 159, cat. 134 (ill.).

Robert and Marianne Huber, Huber Primitive Arts (Dixon, Ill.), by 1968 [correspondence in curatorial file]; sold to Lester (died 1992) and Rosalyn Olin (died 2013), Chicago, by 1968; by bequest to the Art Institute, 2014.

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