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"Adam" Mississippian Figure   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Title
"Adam" Mississippian Figure
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.[1][2]
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.
institution QS:P195,Q160236
Current location
Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas
Accession number
1979.206.476
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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  1. Link Farm State Archaeological Area. Tennessee Department of Enviroment and Conservation.
  2. 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.

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Kneeling Male Figure, Mississippian (MET, 1979.206.476)

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