Object Details
Culture
La Tolita (or possibly Valdivia) (Ecuador)
Date
300 BC-AD 300
Medium
Stone
Dimensions
2 3/4 × 7/8 × 13/16 inches (7 × 2.2 × 2 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Thomas Carroll, PhD 1951
Object
Number
2008.070.055
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