A MANABI-MANTANO STONE STELE,
Lot 276 Property from the Collection of Mrs. Sidney F. Brody

A MANABI-MANTANO STONE STELE,

ECUADOR, CIRCA 850-1500 AD

Closed20 July 2011

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USD 3,250

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A MANABI-MANTANO STONE STELE,
ECUADOR, CIRCA 850-1500 AD
33in. (84cm.) high

Acquired by the current owner in the 1960s
Marshall H. Saville Collection acquired 1907-1910

Specialist note

Cf. Alan Lapiner, Pre-Columbian Art of South America, New York, 1976, pg. 362, pl. 783; Joaquin Pinto, Arte Precolombino de Ecuador, Barcelona, 1977, pg. 213

Marshall Howard Saville (1867 - 1935) was an American archaeologist, born in Massachusetts. He studied anthropology at Harvard (1889-94), engaged in field work under F. W. Putnam, and made important discoveries among the mound builders in southern Ohio. After 1903 he was professor of American archaeology at Columbia University. He also became director of an important private museum in New York, the Museum of the American Indian (Heye Foundation). Dr. Saville conducted many explorations to various places such as Yucatan, Honduras, Mexico, Ecuador and Colombia.
Saville was a founding member of the Explorers Club in New York, an organization formally established in 1905 and dedicated to promoting exploration and scientific investigation in the field.