COLLECTION NAME:
MAW Collection
Record
Filename:
MawM0256-000.jp2
Identifying Number:
MawM0256
Title:
Seated male blowing into a resonance drum or drinking pulque or inhaling a substance.
Subject:
Ceramic sculpture--Mexico--Nayarit
Subject:
Art--Mexico--Nayarit
Subject:
Indigenous peoples--Antiquities
Description:
He might be a musician sending noises or sounds down a tube into a resonance bowl to make music, or he could be using a straw to suck up pulque. His chin strap headdress is unusual, because there is a crested animal on each side.
Materials:
Ceramic: red-brown clay with red-brown, yellow-orange, and white slips.
Publisher:
California State University, Los Angeles
Date:
between 300 B.C. and 300 A.D.
Type:
Artifact
Object Type:
Figure
Dimensions:
5 in high x 3 3/8 in wide x 3 in deep
Collection:
MAW Collection
Location:
Nayarit, 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
Style:
Ixtlan del Rio
Period:
Protoclassic
