Jaguar Head

Arts of the Americas

1989

Estela Dagua (Jacinta Esthela Dagua Malaber)
Canelos Quichua, 1951–?
Puyo, Pastaza Province, Ecuador

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Estela Dagua
Culture: Canelos Quichua
Title: Jaguar Head
Places: Ecuador (Object made in), Pastaza (Object made in)
Date: 1989
Medium: Ceramic, pigment, and shinquillu lacquer, possibly from the Brazilian Elemi (Protium heptophyllum)
Dimensions: 19.1 × 19.1 × 15.2 cm (7 1/2 × 7 1/2 × 6 in.)
Credit Line: Arnold H. Crane Endowment Fund
Reference Number: 2020.241

Estela Dagua (Jacinta Esthela Dagua Malaber, 1951–?), Puyo, Ecuador, 1989; sold to the Sacha Runa Research Foundation, Urbana, IL, 1989 [according to correspondence from Norman Whitten, President, Sacha Runa Research Foundation, in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2020.

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