Bottle with a Masked Figure and Abstract Feline and Textile Motifs

1. Eduard Gaffron (1861–1931), Lima, Peru, from 1892 to 1912, then Berlin, from 1912 [History of the Department report (Joanne Behrens, 1985) and correspondence in curatorial file]; by descent to his children Mercedes Gaffron (1908–1993), Berlin then Durham, NC, and Hans Gaffron (1902–1979), Berlin then Chicago [correspondence and documentation of the Gaffron Collection in curatorial file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1955.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/4015/animal-sculpture-in-pre-columbian-art"><em>Animal Sculpture in Pre-Columbian Art</em></a>, Oct. 12, 1957–Feb. 2, 1958, no cat. no.

• Alan R. Sawyer, <em>Animal Sculpture in Pre-Columbian Art</em>, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1957), 40 (ill.).
• Richard Townsend with Elizabeth Pope, <em>Indian Art of the Americas at the Art Institute of Chicago</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 2016), 337, cat. 303 (ill.).

Ear Ornaments

Art Institute of Chicago

Globular Jar with Repeated Abstract Motifs in Sprial Design

Art Institute of Chicago

Jar in the Form of a Jaguar Head

Art Institute of Chicago

Pendant in the Form of a Figure

Art Institute of Chicago

Globular Jar with Abstract Forms in Spirals on Shoulder

Art Institute of Chicago

Head Fragment from a Large Ceremonial Jar

Art Institute of Chicago

Jar in the Form of an Abstract Human Figure

Art Institute of Chicago

Vessel with Abstract Motifs and a Modeled Head

Art Institute of Chicago

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