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Item Details

Description

**Originally Listed At $250**

Pre-Columbian, Ecuador, Manabi, Bahia, ca. 500 BCE to 500 CE. A wonderful pottery figure of a shaman depicted seated with legs crossed and hands on lap. His sizeable head displays an expressive visage with downturned eyes beneath arched brows, a straight nose, and full lips held open as though mid-chant, all flanked by a pair of annular earspools and capped by a towering headdress. A necklace bearing a protruding shaman's horn hangs across his chest, as bracelets adorn his slender wrists. Size: 4.7" W x 5.6" H (11.9 cm x 14.2 cm)

Provenance: private Hidden Valley Lake, California, USA collection, acquired 2020; ex-Leonard Auction, Chicago Illinois, USA; ex-private collection

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Condition

Repair and restoration to arms and legs. Losses to headdress. Expected surface wear with nicks, chips, and abrasions, as shown. Otherwise, nice with impressively preserved facial detail.