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Roughly carved wooden head; wide nose with round nostrils; small, black, inlaid eyes; wide mouth.
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Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi

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Artist Jesse Aaron (American, 1897 - 1979)
Datec. 1972
Place of originNorth and Central America
MediumWood
Dimensions14 x 8 3/4 x 2 3/4 in. (35.6 x 22.2 x 7 cm)
ClassificationsSculpture
Credit LineGift of R. Hunt Davis, Sr.
Object number1995.3
Collections
Visual DescriptionRoughly carved wooden head; wide nose with round nostrils; small, black, inlaid eyes; wide mouth.
Roughly carved figure with multiple human faces and one animal face, all with glass eyes.
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Jesse Aaron
undated
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Figure Head
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1200-1550
Human head with triangular shaped head; short three-pointed crown over the large concave eyes; large wide cheeks; open mouth; triangular shaped nose with concave nostrils.
Effigy Head
undated
Small hollow dome with human face on one side. Raised mouth area with sunken cheek and eye region. Mouth is incised slit; nose is raised ridge with large pills of clay for nostrils. Eyes inscribed with wide t-shape design, ear spools shown, large headdress runs as ridge laterally across head, red clay with light brown slip.
Human head effigy
Maya Artist
700-850
Animal; very simple with little detail; two concave circular eyes set close together; round nostrils and wide mouth; head sits atop a featureless, cylindrical body with a slightly flaring base and flat bottom.
Effigy Figure
undated
Dog figure with a large triangular head
Untitled (Dog)
Jesse Aaron
c. late 1960s
Small thimble-like ceramic piece, possibly an animal head - flared base, rounded top, wide groove from top down one side, 2 large holes, one on either side of groove, with ridges around them (eyes), 2 small holes at top on sides of groove (nostrils) crescent incised line on opposite side (mouth).
Fragment
Costa Rican Artist
1-1000 ?
Wood mask with heavy black encrustation; the mask is worn on top of the head; composite of human features (elliptical eyes, nose with large flared nostrils and small mouth) with turtle, and serpent. Three lobes on top of the mask with incised grid-like patterns, suggesting scales or bird feathers. There are abstracted faces on either side of the cheeks.
Water Spirit Headdress (Pipligbo)
Kalabari Artist
20th century
Wood sculpture is of a face.
Untitled
Jesse Aaron
1968
Stone mace head, half is spherical with cylindrical hole from top to bottom other half carved to resemble feline head with small ears, broad nose, open toothed mouth, large eyes on side; features formed by drilling, either partially or completely into stone - through ears and mouth, depressions for eyes and nostrils
Mace Head of Skeletal Feline Head
Chorotegan Artist
100-300
Mask
Mask
Jesse Aaron
1973
The full figure of a standing cat, tail thrust upward.
Smiling Cat
Jesse Aaron
late 20th century

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