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New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Head
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.

Head

Artist Unknown
CultureThailand
DateNo Date
MediumCeramic | Terracotta | Unknown
DimensionsOverall: 2 in. (5.1 cm)
Credit LineGift of Dr. James C. Perry in Memory of Nancy Nash Perry
Object number36.8.7
Not on view
DescriptionPart of a study collection. Head is rather squarish at top and back but has protruding lower half of face and flat nose and forehead. Slight smile on lips; widely spaced eyes, highly arched brows. Hair in tiny circles, thick blade pigment (or lacquer?) adhering with traces of gilt there as well as eyes, mouth and ears.

New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Unknown
550-577
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
Unknown
2nd century-3rd century
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Unknown
18th century
Photograph by Shannon Ruff, Canon EOS Mark II D digital slr-2008.
Unknown
13th century-15th century
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
Unknown
18th century
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Unknown
12th-15th centuries
Photograph by Shannon Ruff, Canon EOS Mark II D digital slr-2008.
Unknown
17th century
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Unknown
18th century
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Unknown
ca. 1950
Image scanned from a transparency and color-corrected by Pat Cagney.
Charles Lisk
1993
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Punu peoples
Early to mid-20th century