figurine
- Museum number
- Am1920,-.142
- Description
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Head figurine made of pottery.
- Dimensions
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Height: 3.40 inches (from register)
- Curator's comments
- This figurine of a woman's head is featured in ‘The Names of the Trees,' a short story by Argentine writer and feminist activist Dolores Reyes (b.1978) about the journey of a family of girls and their great grandmother in search of an earth goddess who can restore their devastated ecosystem. This fictional story forms part of ‘Untold Microcosms: Latin American Writers in the British Museum’ (2022), a book project between the Santo Domingo Centre of Excellence for Latin American Research (SDCELAR) at the British Museum and Hay Festival, in English and Spanish. For more information, visit: https://www.sdcelarbritishmuseum.org/collections/untold-microcosms-latin-american-writers-in-the-british-museum/
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1920
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am1920,-.142
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Am1920C3.142 (old CDMS no.)
