Standing Figure

Teotihuacan culture, Pre-Columbian

400 - 600

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Rounded bottom bowl with straight, narrowing sides, on tripodal, pillow style legs. An animal head with repousse features protrudes from one side. Red slip overall, cream painted wide stripe sround bowl with headm with black details, decorations, and vertical leg stripes.
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.
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Bowl with figures wearing masks and feather headdresses