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Filename: 
MawM0267-000.jp2
Identifying Number: 
MawM0267
Title: 
Standing female figure with hands on her abdomen.
Subject: 
Ceramic sculpture--Mexico--Nayarit
Subject: 
Art--Mexico--Nayarit
Subject: 
Indigenous peoples--Antiquities
Description: 
Small figurines often describe the people of the past. What they did to their bodies. The types of clothing they wore. The jewelry they decorated themselves with. This female wears a knee-length skirt with a black "X" pattern that forms white diamonds with black diagonal dots. For jewelry, she decorates her body with earrings, a wide necklace, and two armbands on each arm.
Materials: 
Ceramic: clay with brown, red-brown, yellow, black and cream slip.
Publisher: 
California State University, Los Angeles
Date: 
between 300 B.C. and 300 A.D.
Type: 
Artifact
Object Type: 
Figure
Dimensions: 
5 3/4 in high x 2 5/8 in wide x 1 3/8 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: 
Chinesco
Style: 
Type-D Figure
Period: 
Protoclassic