id:			155904
accession number:	1991.20
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1991.20
updated:		2023-03-14 12:01:44.160000

"Horned" Male (Dwarf?), 100 BC-AD 300. West Mexico, Colima, Comala style (200 BC-AD 300). Earthenware with colored slips, black burial deposits; overall: 41.5 x 24.9 x 24.7 cm (16 5/16 x 9 13/16 x 9 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Fiftieth anniversary gift of the Womens Council in honor of the Museum's Seventy-fifth anniversary 1991.20

title:				"Horned" Male (Dwarf?)
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creation date:			100 BC-AD 300
creation date earliest:		-100
creation date latest:		300
current location:		233 Mesoamerican and Intermediate Region
creditline:			Fiftieth anniversary gift of the Womens Council in honor of the Museum's Seventy-fifth anniversary
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culture:	West Mexico, Colima, Comala style (200 BC-AD 300)
technique:	earthenware with colored slips, black burial deposits
department:	Art of the Americas
collection:	AA - Mesoamerica
type:		Sculpture
find spot:	
catalogue raisonne: 

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CREATORS

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measurements: Overall: 41.5 x 24.9 x 24.7 cm (16 5/16 x 9 13/16 x 9 3/4 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Notable Acquisitions
	opening date:   1991-06-07T04:00:00
	<i>Notable Acquisitions</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 15, 1991).

	title:		Signs of Affection: Gifts Honoring the Museum's 75th Anniversary
	opening date:   1992-10-27T05:00:00
	<i>Signs of Affection: Gifts Honoring the Museum's 75th Anniversary</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 27, 1992-January 3, 1993).

	title:		The Art and Archaeology of Ancient West Mexico
	opening date:   1998-09-26T00:00:00
	<i>The Art and Archaeology of Ancient West Mexico</i>. The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (organizer) (September 26-December 5, 1998); Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (January 9-March 2, 1999).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1991-
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fun fact:
This figure’s “horn” may be the spire of a conch shell, a reference to fertility.

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wall description:
This figure’s concentrated, otherworldly expression is emphasized by the hornlike element strapped to its forehead. This "horn" may be the spire of a conch shell, which comes from water and, therefore, refers to fertility—likely an important ritual concern of West Mexican chiefs. The element also could represent the "horn of power" worn in some areas of the world by shamans, the spiritual leaders and healers of small, non-industrial societies.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Turner, Evan H., Alan Chong, Henry Hawley, Jane Glaubinger, Tom E. Hinson, Henry John Drewal, Margaret Young-Sánchez, Stanislaw J. Czuma, J. Keith Wilson, Michael R. Cunningham, Lawrence M. Berman, Ariellé P. Kozloff, Renate Eikelmann, Michael J. Miller, Anne E. Wardwell, and Bruce Robertson. "Notable Acquisitions." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 78, no. 3 (1991)
	page number: 	p. 116
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161319

	Townsend, Richard F., and Patricia Rieff Anawalt. <em>Ancient West Mexico: Art and Archaeology of the Unknown Past. </em>New York, N.Y.: Thames and Hudson, 1998.
	page number: 	pp. 178-79, fig. 18y, Cat. no. 39
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