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Ear Plug

Object Number:2019-11-16
Current Location: Collections Storage
Provenience: Mexico (Central America)
Capilco
Culture Area: Central American
Section:American
Materials:Ceramic
Length: 2.9 cm
Outside Diameter:2.2 cm
Credit Line:Gift of the Vaillant Family in memory of George C. Vaillant, 2019
Other Number:L-144-19 - Old Loan Number

Description

Black clay. Tubular, slightly expanding at the ends. Incised band.

Current & Past Exhibitions:

Five Thousand Years of Vanity (06 Jan 1944 - 28 Feb 1944) View Objects in Exhibition
Mayan Gallery (1954 - 2001) View Objects in Exhibition
Mesoamerican Gallery (23 Mar 2001 - 2018) View Objects in Exhibition

Bibliography:

[Book] Dorling Kindersley Limited. 2014. History of the World in 1,000 Objects.. London. Dorling Kindersley Limited. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: Page 109 Middle row, rightView Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Catalogue, Exhibition] Danien, Elin. 2002. Guide to the Mesoamerican Gallery at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.. Philadelphia. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 59, pl. 49View Objects related to this Actual Citation

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