United States of America | Florida | Southwest Coast (Florida) | Collier County | Key Marco
Culture Area
Southeast Culture Area
Date Made
700-1560 CE
Section
American
Materials
Wood | Pigment
Iconography
Deer Head
Description
A= Face. Highly finished and life-like figure head of deer with ear pieces accompanying; beautifully painted in blue, black and white colors. To conventionally represent aspect of deer face. Found bundled. Sketches and cast taken.
Dockstader, Frederick J. Indian Art in North America: Arts and Crafts. Fourth Printing ed. Greenwich, Connecticut: New York Graphic Society. See: Fig 58
Madeira, Percy C. Men in Search of Man: The First Seventy-Five Years of the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1964. See: p. 82
Douglas, Frederic H., and Rene d'Harnoncourt. Indian Art of the United States. New York, New York: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1941. See: Page 80
