Squatting figure with owl-like eyes
Life Story
Provenance
Acquired by the Wellcome institute in 1931 from a sale in Paris of the ethnographic collections formerly belonging to surrealist writers Paul Eluard and Andre Breton.
Donated to the Sainsbury Centre, University of East Anglia by the Wellcome Trust in 1981.
Not on display
Title/Description: Squatting figure with owl-like eyes
Object Type: Figure
Materials: Greenstone
Measurements: h. 120 x w. 63 x d. 43 mm
Inscription: lot no. 244 on label
Accession Number: 40096
Production Place: Mesoamerica, Mexico, The Americas
Credit Line: Donated by the Wellcome Trust, 1981
