Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, Chupicuaro and Michoacan, ca. 300 BCE to 600 CE. A collection of 2 pottery figures and a bone amulet. The figures may have been ancestors or protective figures to place in a tomb as guardians - one is nude with prominent male genitalia and the other is adorned in applied jewelry, loin cloth, and headdress. The bone amulet is carved in the form of a crouching zoomorph with a piercing through the center, perhaps for wearing on a cord as a protective charm. Size of male figure: 1.75" L x 0.75" W x 4" H (4.4 cm x 1.9 cm x 10.2 cm); 4.75" H (12.1 cm) on included custom stand.

Provenance: private Southern California, USA collection, acquired in the 1970s to mid-1980s

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Repairs and restoration to shorter pottery figure, hairline fissure across torso and new material infill added to this area. Head on male figure reattached. Natural pitting and ossification to bone, otherwise amulet is intact.