Western Mexico - Jalisco Culture, Important Dignitary Statuette, 300 BC - 300 AD
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Dimensions :
- Height : 25.6 cm
- Width : 18.7 cm
Jalisco culture, Important dignitary statuette, 300 BC - 300 AD.
Sandstone
25.6 x 18.7cm
Former American private collection
restoration to right bars and surface wear
The statuette represents a kneeling woman dressed in a loincloth, her chest bare. It is characterized by atrophied upper limbs and short but massive legs. The wide and stocky body receives a chest with breasts projected forward. The powerful shoulders are punctuated with conical growths which could be related to ritual scars, or according to certain researchers, to body ornamentations composed of shells. The hands are positioned parallel to the ground, the fingers apart. The face of disproportionate proportions, slightly bent to the left, is classic of the Jalisco culture (here in the Ezatlán style): protruding almond-shaped eyes enclosed in thick eyelids, long straight nose, mouth with detailed lips, pavilion-shaped ears. The ritually deformed skull towards the back accommodates a headdress girded by a headband of braids crossed in its center. The subject contains clay balls placed inside acting as cowbells.
This kind of statuette from the Jalisco Culture, like the Colima and Nayarit peoples, comes from the well tombs that developed in Western Mexico between 100 BC and 250 AD. These cultures had the particularity of building tombs under their dwellings, a long vertical shaft then connecting the surface to the family vault which could contain many burials. The offerings from the shaft tombs consisted of ceramic statuettes offering to our eyes a wide panorama of the customs of that time.
Sandstone
25.6 x 18.7cm
Former American private collection
restoration to right bars and surface wear
The statuette represents a kneeling woman dressed in a loincloth, her chest bare. It is characterized by atrophied upper limbs and short but massive legs. The wide and stocky body receives a chest with breasts projected forward. The powerful shoulders are punctuated with conical growths which could be related to ritual scars, or according to certain researchers, to body ornamentations composed of shells. The hands are positioned parallel to the ground, the fingers apart. The face of disproportionate proportions, slightly bent to the left, is classic of the Jalisco culture (here in the Ezatlán style): protruding almond-shaped eyes enclosed in thick eyelids, long straight nose, mouth with detailed lips, pavilion-shaped ears. The ritually deformed skull towards the back accommodates a headdress girded by a headband of braids crossed in its center. The subject contains clay balls placed inside acting as cowbells.
This kind of statuette from the Jalisco Culture, like the Colima and Nayarit peoples, comes from the well tombs that developed in Western Mexico between 100 BC and 250 AD. These cultures had the particularity of building tombs under their dwellings, a long vertical shaft then connecting the surface to the family vault which could contain many burials. The offerings from the shaft tombs consisted of ceramic statuettes offering to our eyes a wide panorama of the customs of that time.
Dimensions :
- Height : 25.6 cm
- Width : 18.7 cm
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