Box Fragment
300–750
- Medium
- Wood, stucco, and pigment
- Dimensions
- H.: 22 cm (8 5/8 in.)
- Genre
- Wood
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
paintmesoamericanamericasplasterpainting (coating)woodplant materialamerican decorative artscontainerstuccowood (plant material)Arts of the AmericasteotihuacánPre-Columbiancoating (process)decorative artsincisingcoating (material)art of the americas
About
This fragment was part of a rectangular wood box painted with several depictions of an ornately dressed male figure standing in profile. It shows the individual’s face with large oval eye, the lower portion of his feathered headdress, fabric-and-feather streamers that flow down his back, and a bundle of long feathers and plants that is held in his outstretched hand.