Stylized painting showing a photographer operating a large wooden bellows camera, set against a backdrop of draped reddish-brown fabric and abstract gray forms.
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART JOURNAL | VOLUME 60

"Crafting a Tolita-Tumaco Seated Elder Figure"

Ikehara-Tsukayama, Hugo C., and Amanda Chau
2025
11 pages
8 illustrations
9.25 x 11.25 in
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The Metropolitan Museum Journal is issued annually and publishes original research on works of art in the Museum’s collection. Highlights of volume 60 include texts on a ceramic figure of a Tolita-Tumaco community elder crafted in ancient Ecuador, an exemplary Hanukkah lamp made by an eighteenth-century Roman silversmith, and modernist painter Yasuo Kuniyoshi’s Self-Portrait as a Photographer from 1924.

Seated elder, Tolita-Tumaco artist(s), Ceramic, Tolita-Tumaco
Tolita-Tumaco artist(s)
200 BCE–300 CE

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Ikehara-Tsukayama, Hugo C., and Amanda Chau. “Crafting a Tolita-Tumaco Seated Elder Figure.” Metropolitan Museum Journal 60 (December 2025): 102–12. https://doi.org/10.1086/739637.