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Miniature size, magical quality : Nasca art from the Glassell collection / Frances Marzio.
Penn Museum Library F3429.1.N3 M872 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nazca culture.
- Indian shell engraving--Peru.
- Indian shell engraving.
- Shellcraft--Peru.
- Shellcraft.
- Spondylus--Peru.
- Spondylus.
- Peru--Antiquities.
- Peru.
- Antiquities.
- Glassell, Alfred C. (Alfred Curry), 1913-2008--Ethnological collections.
- Glassell, Alfred C.
- Glassell, Alfred C. (Alfred Curry), 1913-2008.
- Ethnological museums and collections.
- Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 91 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 29 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Houston : Museum of Fine Arts ; New Haven : Distributed by Yale University Press, [2007]
- 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- "Presents a previously unpublished group of Nasca miniature objects from the Glassell Collection of Pre-Columbian Art.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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 87-91).
- ISBN:
- 9780300137477
- 0300137478
- OCLC:
- 163604426
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