Bibliography
Benson, Elizabeth P. 1963 Handbook of the Robert Woods Bliss Collection of Pre-Columbian Art. Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard University, Washington, D.C., p. 54, cat. 308.
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Exhibition History
"Indigenous Art of the Americas", National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, February 1954 to July 1962.
Acquisition History
Acquired from the Peabody Museum, Cambridge, MA, by Robert Woods Bliss, 1951.
Robert Woods Bliss Collection of Pre-Columbian Art, Washington, DC, 1951-1962.
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Pre-Columbian Collection, Washington, DC.
