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Pacific Coast region (Mexico), |
- This sculpture of a standing figure comes from a shaft-chamber tomb
in what is now the modern state of Nayarit, on the west coast of Mexico.
- The artist formed the torso by hand from a large slab of clay and
then modeled and added APPENDAGES,
articles of clothing, and ORNAMENTATION.
- This figure of a woman was probably part of a male and female pair.
She is a human CARICATURE,
with enormous, EXAGGERATED
facial and bodily features.
- Such CERAMIC
figures were placed in tombs to honor or protect the
dead or to serve as reminders of the deceased's family members in the
passage from this world to the next.
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