Provenance Information

Purchased in 1983 by Mr and Mrs. Lawrence S. Pollock, Jr., from Peter Wray, Scottsdale, Arizona; bequeathed by Mrs. Pollock to Dallas Museum of Art (accession date: October 7, 2009)

Exhibition Information

DMA, April 2009 through the present.

Publication Information

N/A

Section of the AAMD Guidelines relied upon for the exception to 1970

Gift or bequest expected or on loan prior to 2008

Explain why the object fits the exception set forth above

This work was an intended bequest to the DMA since 2000 and was acquired by bequest in October 2009. Provenance is established to 1983. This flint was reputedly found at the same site as another eccentric flint, the latter shaped as a crocodile canoe with passengers, which was acquired in 1983 by The Eugene and Margaret McDermott Art Fund, Inc. for the DMA. Both flints were acquired from the collection of Peter Wray and are on display at the DMA. They were reputedly associated as early as the 1970s with the collection of Sr. Castillo of Guatemala, and Spencer Throckmorton, New York, reputedly sold the flints to Peter Wray in 1979. This flint is stylistically different from the McDermott flint, and the stone differs in appearance between the two. The two examples are aesthetically complementary, and if, indeed, they were part of the same cache originally, they are reunited in the DMA’s galleries.