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Head of a Woman
Head of a Woman

Head of a Woman

CultureIndian
DateKushana dynasty (50-300 C.E.)
MediumModelled reddish gray terracotta
DimensionsOverall: 5 15/16 × 3 3/4 × 3 1/8 inches (15.08 × 9.53 × 7.94 cm)
Credit LineGift of Bilha and Edward W. M. Bryant
Object numberF92-15/5
On View
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DescriptionHead of a woman with open mouth, sharp nose with end broken off, open eyes with incised pupils, hair with two side parts and a round piece of jewelry at the center, with lobe broken off.Exhibition History
No exhibition history known at this time.
Provenance

Bilha (née Mosheva, b. 1934) and Edward W. M. Bryant (1924–2006), Washington D.C., by 1992 [1];

Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1992.

[1] Edward (Ted) Bryant joined the U.S. Foreign Service and held posts in Europe, Africa, and Asia until his retirement in 1981. It is possible that this sculpture may have been acquired when the Bryant family lived in Karachi, Pakistan between 1972 and 1975 or in Delhi, India between 1977 and 1981. At the time of this gift to the Nelson-Atkins, Mr. and Mrs. Bryant also gifted works of art to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. For more information on Bryant’s foreign service work, see Bilha Bryant’s 1998 oral history conducted for the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training in the department’s curatorial files.

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