Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Nayarit, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. This terracotta platform figure depicts a man wearing a headdress lying down inside of a small roofed structure. This figure comes to us from the West Mexican shaft tomb tradition and would have been placed inside of the tomb, facing outward from the walls towards the human remains within, as if in conversation. All Nayarit figures are made from the applique technique and painted with reds, whites, blacks, and sometimes yellow; this figure has the remains of what seems to have been red paint, especially on the headdress. Size: 3" L x 3" W x 4.5" H (7.6 cm x 7.6 cm x 11.4 cm)

Provenance: Ex-private Olan collection, California, by family descent, acquired 1960 to 1970.

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This piece has been broken and repaired in two places; there are very small chips, and some manganese staining.