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Female Figure
Female Figure
Datec. 1200-500 BCE
MediumCeramic with burnished slip
DimensionsOverall: 11 1/4 in. × 7 in. × 4 in. (28.6 × 17.8 × 10.2 cm)
Credit LineGift of Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Museum of Art
Object number2001.1.2
Not on view
DescriptionRed clay figure of a seated woman in typical Tlatlico style with stylized shortened and tappered armes and legs and a hole all the way through the figure at the navel. PR leg is broken
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Alternate Titles Figurine of a Seated Female
Exhibition History 2012
Clinton, NY. Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, Hamilton College. "Archive Hall: Art and Artifacts," October 6, 2012 - Present (no cat.).

1980 (Possibly based on title history)
Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute. "Splendors of the Precolumbian World"
Provenance 2001: Hamilton College (Fred L. Emerson Gallery), by gift of Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Bunshaft.
Inscribed "71.8" on bottom in red marker.
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