Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima or Jalisco, Pihuamo style, ca. 100 BCE to 300 CE. A red-slipped pottery figure shown seated with his hand resting on his legs, featuring delineated legs and tubular arms with hands lightly rested on his knees. Otherwise nude, the figure wears a headdress, armbands, and earrings. Colima, located on Mexico’s southwestern coast, was part of the shaft tomb culture during this period, along with neighbors to the north in Jalisco and Nayarit. In this culture, the dead were buried down shafts that were almost always dug beneath a dwelling, probably a family home, and seem to have been used as family mausoleums, housing the remains of many related individuals. This is a figure made to be placed inside those mausoleums, perhaps to mediate between the worlds of the living and the dead, the hollow form also serving as a vessel for offerings. Size: 5" L x 4" W x 8" H (12.7 cm x 10.2 cm x 20.3 cm)

Provenance: private Charlotte, North Carolina, USA collection; ex- Walter Knox collection, Fort Knox Antiquities, Mesa, Arizona, USA, acquired in September 2004

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Some surface chips and abrasions, otherwise intact. Scattered manganese deposits.