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Standing Figure Wearing...
MawM0202
 
Title
Standing Figure Wearing a Skirt or a Kilt
Description
Many Mesoamerican cultures practiced body modification, which marked a person's status and cultural affiliation. When babies are born, the center of their skulls are made of very flexible cartilage. Mesoamericans bound the heads of newborn babies in different ways to create different head shapes.
Subject
[Ceramic sculpture--Mexico--Colima (State), Art--Mexico--Colima (State), Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 300 B.C. and 300 A.D.
MawM0202-bot.jp2
Standing Figure Wearing...
MawM0202
 
Title
Standing Figure Wearing a Skirt or a Kilt
Description
Many Mesoamerican cultures practiced body modification, which marked a person's status and cultural affiliation. When babies are born, the center of their skulls are made of very flexible cartilage. Mesoamericans bound the heads of newborn babies in different ways to create different head shapes.
Subject
[Ceramic sculpture--Mexico--Colima (State), Art--Mexico--Colima (State), Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 300 B.C. and 300 A.D.
MawM0202-270.jp2
Standing Figure Wearing...
MawM0202
 
Title
Standing Figure Wearing a Skirt or a Kilt
Description
Many Mesoamerican cultures practiced body modification, which marked a person's status and cultural affiliation. When babies are born, the center of their skulls are made of very flexible cartilage. Mesoamericans bound the heads of newborn babies in different ways to create different head shapes.
Subject
[Ceramic sculpture--Mexico--Colima (State), Art--Mexico--Colima (State), Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 300 B.C. and 300 A.D.
MawM0202-180.jp2
Standing Figure Wearing...
MawM0202
 
Title
Standing Figure Wearing a Skirt or a Kilt
Description
Many Mesoamerican cultures practiced body modification, which marked a person's status and cultural affiliation. When babies are born, the center of their skulls are made of very flexible cartilage. Mesoamericans bound the heads of newborn babies in different ways to create different head shapes.
Subject
[Ceramic sculpture--Mexico--Colima (State), Art--Mexico--Colima (State), Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 300 B.C. and 300 A.D.
MawM0202-090.jp2
Standing Figure Wearing...
MawM0202
 
Title
Standing Figure Wearing a Skirt or a Kilt
Description
Many Mesoamerican cultures practiced body modification, which marked a person's status and cultural affiliation. When babies are born, the center of their skulls are made of very flexible cartilage. Mesoamericans bound the heads of newborn babies in different ways to create different head shapes.
Subject
[Ceramic sculpture--Mexico--Colima (State), Art--Mexico--Colima (State), Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 300 B.C. and 300 A.D.
MawM0202-000.jp2
Standing Figure Wearing...
MawM0202
 
Title
Standing Figure Wearing a Skirt or a Kilt
Description
Many Mesoamerican cultures practiced body modification, which marked a person's status and cultural affiliation. When babies are born, the center of their skulls are made of very flexible cartilage. Mesoamericans bound the heads of newborn babies in different ways to create different head shapes.
Subject
[Ceramic sculpture--Mexico--Colima (State), Art--Mexico--Colima (State), Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 300 B.C. and 300 A.D.
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