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Source Description
Tlatilco was a small village located on the outskirts of modern Mexico City. During the 1930s and 1940s, numerous collectors-the artist and author Miguel Covarrubias and his friend the famous muralist Diego Rivera among them-spoke of traveling there on weekends "with a pocketful of cash and returning with an archaeological puzzle or an artistic masterpiece."
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Document identity
localId
26685
label
Maskette
core
obj
dtoType
object
citationUrl
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
26685
sourceUrl
contentType
object
stage
normalized
title
Maskette
description
Tlatilco was a small village located on the outskirts of modern Mexico City. During the 1930s and 1940s, numerous collectors-the artist and author Miguel Covarrubias and his friend the famous muralist Diego Rivera among them-spoke of traveling there on weekends "with a pocketful of cash and returning with an archaeological puzzle or an artistic masterpiece."
provenance
Eustoria Padilla, Bogota, Columbia; Marisol Stokes, Nyack, NY; Claudia Lord Stokes, New York; Walters Art Museum, 2003, by gift.
date
1200-900 BC (Early Formative)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Ceramics
masks (costume)
imageCount
1
pageCount
1
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
8.8
height
5
depth
10
dimensionsRaw
3 7/16 x 1 15/16 x 3 15/16 in. (8.8 x 5 x 10 cm)
Source extras
cul
Tlatilco
style
Tlatilco
med
earthenware, pigment
creator_ids
15517
collection_ids
AME
exhibition_ids
2755
Single page context
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1
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0
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photo
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b7d47c3ecf78bc01