Bowl in the Form of a Llama with Geometric Motifs

Arts of the Americas

600–1000

Tiwanaku-Wari
South coast Peru or northern Bolivia

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Culture: Tiwanaku
Title: Bowl in the Form of a Llama with Geometric Motifs
Place: Bolivia (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.: Made 600 CE–1000
Medium: Ceramic and pigment
Credit Line: Gift of Buckingham Fund and James W. Ellsworth
Reference Number: 1961.917
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Malcolm K. Whyte (died 1967), Milwaukee, WI, from 1957 [this and the following according to Parsons 1962 and Newbury 2014]; given to the Milwaukee Public Museum, 1960 or 1961 [according to correspondence from Milwaukee Public Museum, Apr. 25, 2002, MPM accession number A51281/18046; incoming permanent receipt RX3573, June 16, 1961, copies in curatorial object file, Arts of the Americas]; by exchange to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1961.

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