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Title
Seated male figure with crossed arms.
Description
A nude male sits with his knees drawn up to his chest. His left arm rests on his knees. He wears an assortment of jewelry and the chinstrap headdress suggests a ballplayer. The habit of sitting with drawn knees and arms resting on them is a very typical posture in Mesoamerican sculpture.
Subject
[Ceramic sculpture--Mexico--Teotihuacán Valley, Art--Mexico--Teotihuacán Valley, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 500 B.C. and 200 B.C.
Title
Seated male figure with crossed arms.
Description
A nude male sits with his knees drawn up to his chest. His left arm rests on his knees. He wears an assortment of jewelry and the chinstrap headdress suggests a ballplayer. The habit of sitting with drawn knees and arms resting on them is a very typical posture in Mesoamerican sculpture.
Subject
[Ceramic sculpture--Mexico--Teotihuacán Valley, Art--Mexico--Teotihuacán Valley, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 500 B.C. and 200 B.C.
Title
Seated male figure with crossed arms.
Description
A nude male sits with his knees drawn up to his chest. His left arm rests on his knees. He wears an assortment of jewelry and the chinstrap headdress suggests a ballplayer. The habit of sitting with drawn knees and arms resting on them is a very typical posture in Mesoamerican sculpture.
Subject
[Ceramic sculpture--Mexico--Teotihuacán Valley, Art--Mexico--Teotihuacán Valley, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 500 B.C. and 200 B.C.
Title
Seated male figure with crossed arms.
Description
A nude male sits with his knees drawn up to his chest. His left arm rests on his knees. He wears an assortment of jewelry and the chinstrap headdress suggests a ballplayer. The habit of sitting with drawn knees and arms resting on them is a very typical posture in Mesoamerican sculpture.
Subject
[Ceramic sculpture--Mexico--Teotihuacán Valley, Art--Mexico--Teotihuacán Valley, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 500 B.C. and 200 B.C.
Title
Kneeling female figure giving birth.
Description
In Spanish, you would say "dar a luz" or "to give light" and in English "to give birth." The Mesoamericans considered the womb like a cave and the birthing process emerging into the light or life, in other words, resurrection. The position of the left hand to the head and the right hand on her abdomen describes an iconic position for childbirth in Mesoamerica.
Subject
[Ceramic sculpture--Mexico--Teotihuacán Valley, Art--Mexico--Teotihuacán Valley, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 500 B.C. and 200 B.C.
Title
Kneeling female figure giving birth.
Description
In Spanish, you would say "dar a luz" or "to give light" and in English "to give birth." The Mesoamericans considered the womb like a cave and the birthing process emerging into the light or life, in other words, resurrection. The position of the left hand to the head and the right hand on her abdomen describes an iconic position for childbirth in Mesoamerica.
Subject
[Ceramic sculpture--Mexico--Teotihuacán Valley, Art--Mexico--Teotihuacán Valley, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 500 B.C. and 200 B.C.
Title
Kneeling female figure giving birth.
Description
In Spanish, you would say "dar a luz" or "to give light" and in English "to give birth." The Mesoamericans considered the womb like a cave and the birthing process emerging into the light or life, in other words, resurrection. The position of the left hand to the head and the right hand on her abdomen describes an iconic position for childbirth in Mesoamerica.
Subject
[Ceramic sculpture--Mexico--Teotihuacán Valley, Art--Mexico--Teotihuacán Valley, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 500 B.C. and 200 B.C.
Title
Kneeling female figure giving birth.
Description
In Spanish, you would say "dar a luz" or "to give light" and in English "to give birth." The Mesoamericans considered the womb like a cave and the birthing process emerging into the light or life, in other words, resurrection. The position of the left hand to the head and the right hand on her abdomen describes an iconic position for childbirth in Mesoamerica.
Subject
[Ceramic sculpture--Mexico--Teotihuacán Valley, Art--Mexico--Teotihuacán Valley, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 500 B.C. and 200 B.C.
Title
Kneeling female figure giving birth.
Description
In Spanish, you would say "dar a luz" or "to give light" and in English "to give birth." The Mesoamericans considered the womb like a cave and the birthing process emerging into the light or life, in other words, resurrection. The position of the left hand to the head and the right hand on her abdomen describes an iconic position for childbirth in Mesoamerica.
Subject
[Ceramic sculpture--Mexico--Teotihuacán Valley, Art--Mexico--Teotihuacán Valley, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 500 B.C. and 200 B.C.
Title
Kneeling female figure giving birth.
Description
In Spanish, you would say "dar a luz" or "to give light" and in English "to give birth." The Mesoamericans considered the womb like a cave and the birthing process emerging into the light or life, in other words, resurrection. The position of the left hand to the head and the right hand on her abdomen describes an iconic position for childbirth in Mesoamerica.
Subject
[Ceramic sculpture--Mexico--Teotihuacán Valley, Art--Mexico--Teotihuacán Valley, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 500 B.C. and 200 B.C.
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