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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: 
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Culture: 
Shaft Tomb
Style: 
Ixtlan del Rio
Period: 
Protoclassic