A seated figure
Category
Ceramics
Date
c. 300 BC - c. 500 AD
Materials
Earthenware
Measurements
240 x 120 x 100 mm
Place of origin
Nayarit, Mexico
Order this imageCollection
Greenway, Devon
NT 120524.1
Summary
Earthenware, a seated ancestor figure, Nayarit, Western Mexico, of unknown pre-colonial date (c. 300 BCE-500 CE). A Nayarit shaft tomb ancestor figure of modelled and incised earthenware, this figure assembled or reassembled from fragments probably as the result of illegal looting.