Standing Female Figure

Colima culture, Pre-Columbian

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Jug with ornate incised designs, diety vessel with stirrup handle and single spout, mask flanked by pair of animals. Consists of a modelled monkey figure and a spherical spouted form connected by a "bidge-like" handle. The posterior portion is divided into panels featuring birds on a stippled ground.
A youthful and strong figure standing proudly on long slightly bent legs, displaying a trophy head in the right-hand and holding a double-headed axe in the left, with peetorals indicated and wearing geometrically carved bark armor around the waist, the striated, parted coiffure forming a long plait down the neck in grey volcanic stone.
Standing figure wearing earspools, necklace and headdress
Bowl with flat bottom, flaring toward top; decorated with supernatural creature, and abstract, zoomorphic design elements