Mask from an Incense Burner Portraying the Old Deity of Fire

1. Joseph P. Antonow, Chicago, by Dec. 1962 [incoming permanent receipt RX4120, Dec. 10, 1962, copy in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1962.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, <em>Before Cortes: Sculpture of Middle America</em>, Sept. 30, 1970–Jan. 3, 1971, cat. 123.
• Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/7966/the-ancient-americas-art-from-sacred-landscapes"><em>The Ancient Americas: Art from Sacred Landscapes</em></a>, Oct. 10, 1992–Jan. 3, 1993, cat. 250, as <em>Mask from Incense Burner Depicting the Old Deity of Fire</em>; Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Feb. 4–April 18, 1993; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, June 6–Aug. 15, 1993.
• Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/8880/chicago-s-dream-a-world-s-treasure-the-art-institute-1893-1993"><em>Chicago’s Dream, A World’s Treasure: the Art Institute, 1893-1993</em></a>, Nov. 1, 1993–Jan. 9, 1994.

• Art Institute of Chicago, <em>The Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report</em>(1962–1963), 29 (ill.).
• Allen Wardwell, <em>Primitive Art from the Collections of the Art Institute of Chicago</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 1965), fig. 38 (ill.).
• Elizabeth Kennedy Easby and John F. Scott, <em>Before Cortes: Sculpture of Middle America</em>, exh. cat. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1970), 158–59, cat. 123 (ill.).
• Mary Helms, <em>Middle America: A Culture History of Heartland and Frontiers</em> (Prentice Hall, 1975), 60, fig. 5.5 (ill.).
• Richard Townsend, ed., <em>The Ancient Americas: Art from Sacred Landscapes</em>, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1992), 5, 118 (detail), 381, cat. 250 (ill.), as <em>Mask from Incense Burner Depicting the Old Deity of Fire</em>.
• Richard Townsend with Elizabeth Pope, <em>Indian Art of the Americas at the Art Institute of Chicago</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 2016), 176–177, cat. 150 (ill.).

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