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Miniature size, magical quality : Nasca art from the Alfred C. Glassell collection

Title
Miniature size, magical quality : Nasca art from the Alfred C. Glassell collection / Frances Marzio.
Author
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Publication
Houston : Museum of Fine Arts ; New Haven : Distributed by Yale University Press, ©2007.

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Additional Authors
Marzio, Frances.
Description
ix, 91 pages : color illustrations, color map; 29 cm
Summary
"Presents a previously unpublished group of Nasca miniature objects from the Glassell Collection of Pre-Columbian Art. The miniatures, a majority of which first existed in pairs, date to about 600 A.D. and most were carved from or incorporate spondylus shell"--Provided by publisher.
Subject
  • Glassell, Alfred C. 1913-2008 > Ethnological collections
  • Glassell, Alfred C. 1913-2008
  • Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
  • Nazca culture
  • Indian shell engraving > Peru
  • Shellcraft > Peru
  • Spondylus > Peru
  • Anthropology > Private collections
  • Antiquities
  • Indian shell engraving
  • Shellcraft
  • Spondylus
  • Peru > Antiquities
  • Peru
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Foreword / Peter C. Marzio -- Reflections on Collecting / Alfred C. Glassell, Jr. -- Catalogue of Nasca Art from the Glassell Collection -- Spondylus and Turquoise -- Geography and Warfare -- Trophy Heads -- Female Depictions -- A Nasca Menagerie -- Gold.
ISBN
  • 9780300137477
  • 0300137478
LCCN
2007031842
OCLC
  • ocn489800745
  • 489800745
  • SCSB-1462803
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library