About the Artwork
Spoon
between 900 and 600 BCE
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Precolumbian
Olmec
Jade and pigment
Overall: 5 7/8 × 1 3/8 inches (14.9 × 3.5 cm)
Sculpture
Indigenous Americas
Founders Society Purchase, New Endowment Fund and General Endowment Fund
1984.41
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Provenance
1984-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Pre-Columbian Art of Mexico and Central America. Exh. cat., the Bowers Museum. Santa Ana, CA, 1974, no. 50 (ill.).
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Olmec, Precolumbian, Spoon, between 900 and 600 BCE, jade and pigment. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, New Endowment Fund and General Endowment Fund, 1984.41.
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