Artist:                     Painted Seated Clay Figure, Nayarit

Title:                       Musician

Date:                       700 B.C. – 400 B.C.

Region:                  Nayarit: The great Mesoamerican civilization extended from the Sinaloa River on the western side of Mexico all the way to the Central American nation of Nicaragua, roughly a surface of a million square kilometers.

Medium:                Grotesque, Painted earthenware, Nayarit seated clay figure

Materials:              Clay and natural colors

Markings:              Painted

Dimensions:          9”

Framed:                  No

Inventory No:       NAPT.1999.000002

Provenance:         Neal Prince Trust u/a/d 10.18.1999

Mr. Neal Prince

Mr. Neal A. Prince and Mr. Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr.¹

Provenance:          Source documentation for the Fine Arts Appraisal for Herbert W. Hemphill, Jr., May 12, 1964, Page 4/13

Footnote:               Provenance is fully noted within Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr. (a/k/a Burt) insurance policy executed by Neal A. Prince in 1964 and is filed with the Smithsonian Institute American Archives in Box 6, in Folders 13-18.