COLLECTION NAME:
MAW Collection
Record
Filename:
MawM0245-000.jp2
Identifying Number:
MawM0245
Title:
Standing male wearing a cape : pendant
Subject:
Ceramic sculpture--Mexico--Jalisco
Subject:
Art--Mexico--Jalisco
Subject:
Indigenous peoples--Antiquities
Description:
This figure has been perforated twice, probably to form a pendant. Most of these pendants are female. This nude male wears a horned headdress (a shaman) and a mantle off his left shoulder across his chest. His hands close to his groin indicate he is a fertility amulet.
Materials:
Ceramic: tan clay with red-brown slip; burnished.
Publisher:
California State University, Los Angeles
Date:
between 300 B.C. and 300 A.D.
Type:
Artifact
Object Type:
Figure
Dimensions:
5 1/2 in high x 1 3/4 in wide x 3/4 in deep
Collection:
MAW Collection
Location:
Jalisco, Mexico
Rights:
Physical collection housed at California State University, Los Angeles. | MATERIALS ARE IN COPYRIGHT | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ | This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).
Culture:
Shaft Tomb
Period:
Protoclassic
