Standing Female Figure

Jalisco culture, Pre-Columbian

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Seated Female with Bowl, Jalisco culture, Pre-Columbian, fired clay and slip
Feathered serpent tied into knot with rattles visible at back. Atypical in having human head connected to body. Characteristic undilating headband with knot at front center. pendant earlugs (indicative of Quetzalcoatl). No carvings on base, apparently cut from larger piece (?). Tip of nose broken.
Vessel, Mexico, Pre-Columbian, earthenware
Anthropomorphic, earthenware vessel with narrow mouth and flared rim, has shape of seated female with arms resting on abdomen. Brown clay body under black slip. Facial features, breasts, and umbilicus of appliquéd balls of clay; curved clay rolls form arms and fingers. Feet emerge from body of vessel; female genitalia articulated as raised groove. Otherwise round vessel has unusually projecting shoulder blades, perhaps indicating physical deformity of the back.