An Iowa College in the Liberal Arts Tradition
Pre-Columbian Pottery
The Luther College Fine Arts Collection contains a significant number of pre-Columbian pottery pieces, both complete and reconstructed, from Central and South America. These works came primarily from family donations, first a group of Mexican objects came from the family of Helen Elaine Talle. and also from the estate of Marguerite Wildenhain donated the final grouping of 21 pre-Columbian objects from Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia.
