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Courtesy of the Harn Museum of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi
Head of Child
Maker
Mexico, Central Veracruz
Date
600-900
Medium
Ceramic
Dimensions
6 × 5 1/2 × 3 1/4 in. (15.2 × 14 × 8.3 cm)
Classifications
Sculpture
Credit Line
Gift of John F. and Lynn T. Scott
Object number
2018.52.5
Collections
ANCIENT AMERICAN
Description
Smiling head of child scroll headdress on flattened skull, fragment—removed from body
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