Object Details
Culture
South America
Medium
Stone
Dimensions
3 15/16 × 2 3/8 × 11/16 inches (10 × 6 × 1.7 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Thomas Carroll, PhD 1951
Object
Number
2006.070.206
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