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THBColima Pottery Hunchback Figure Drinking Pulque
Lot 120
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Artemis Gallery
686 S Taylor Ave, Ste 106
Louisville, CO 80027
United States
Selling antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art online since 1993, Artemis Gallery specializes in Classical Antiquities (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern), Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal / Oceanographic art. Our extensive inventory includes pottery, stone, metal, wood, glass and textil...Read more
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Pre-Columbuan, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. An intriguing bichrome terracotta hunchback figure, seated and drinking pulque from a large striated gourd positioned between legs with bent knees. The figure presents a characteristically elongated head with a tranquil visage featuring coffee bean shaped eyes, a protruding nose adorned by a nose ring, large ears adorned with multiple earrings, and a white headband in bas relief. In addition, the figure is decorated with a beaded necklace and bas relief armbands. Pulque, an alcoholic beverage made from the fermented sap of the agave plant and also known as Octli, was an intoxicating beverage drunk during milestones such as weddings and other ritualistic ceremonies. Size: 4" W x 6.6" H (10.2 cm x 16.8 cm)
According to scholars, the ancients of the Americas believed that the physical deformities of hunchback figures were signs that these people were chosen by the supernatural and endowed with magical powers, and they were revered as the bearers of good or bad luck. Interestingly, scholars also have attributed the hunched back in West Mexican shaft tomb culture to a particular form of tuberculosis.
Provenance: private Colgate, Wisconsin, USA collection acquired 1970s to 1990s
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#156824Repair to head and top of gourd stem, with very small chips and light adhesive residue along break lines. Abrasions and minor nicks to base, limbs, body, pulque vessel, and head, with fading and chipping to areas of pigment, and light encrustations. Nice remains of original pigment throughout.Condition
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