False head

Chimú, 900

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Chimú

Chimú, 900

Physical Qualities Wood, shell, 13 3/4 × 6 1/8 × 2 15/16 in. (35 × 15.6 × 7.4 cm.)

Credit Line Gift of Allan H. Dana and Children, Columbia, Maryland

Object Number 1999.600

Face and neck in carved wood; half-shells for eyes. May have served as surrogate head in mummy burial.

Chimú

Henri Matisse and Henri Matisse, Presentation Maquette, Poésies de Stéphane Mallarmé

Study for headpiece from "Le Guignon" (refused etching)

20th century

Henri Matisse and Henri Matisse, Presentation Maquette, Poésies de Stéphane Mallarmé

Study for headpiece from "Le Faune" refused etching)

20th century

Theodore Russell Davis and Haviland & Co.

"Sheep's Head" Fish Plate

1878