Nose Ornament in the Form of an Long-Nosed Saurian with C-shaped Body
Coclé · 800–1200
Provenance
Ownership history
- Lee E. Montgomery, St. Charles, Ill., by 1951 [documentation in curatorial files]; sold to the Art Institute, 1969.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Literature
Published references
- Richard Townsend with Elizabeth Pope, <em>Indian Art of the Americas at the Art Institute of Chicago</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 2016), 256, cat. 197 (ill.).
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