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Summary
"Adam" Mississippian Figure ( ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Title |
"Adam" Mississippian Figure
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Description |
Mississippian culture
; Male figure; Stone Sculpture. Discovered at the
Link Farm Site
located at the confluence of the Duck and Buffalo Rivers in
Humphreys County, Tennessee
, as part of of a paired male and female set of statues nicknamed "Adam" and "Eve" by the discoverers.
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Date | 13th–14th century | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Medium | Quartz sandstone | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Dimensions |
H. 26 1/2 x W. 14 x D. 10 3/4 in. (67.3 x 35.6 x 27.3 cm) Weight: 93 lbs. |
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q160236
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Current location |
Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas
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Accession number |
1979.206.476
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Credit line | The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Bequest of Nelson A. Rockefeller, 1979 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Source/Photographer |
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/312686
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Permission
( Reusing this file ) |
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- ↑ Link Farm State Archaeological Area . Tennessee Department of Enviroment and Conservation.
- ↑ Kevin E. Smith (2009) Speaking with the Ancestors-Mississippian Stone Statuary of the Tennessee-Cumberland region , en:University of Alabama Press , pp. 83–88 ISBN : 978-0-8173-5465-7 .