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THBNayarit Terracotta Female Mourner Figure
Lot 75
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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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By Artemis Gallery
Nov 14, 2019
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2019-11-14 10:00:00
2019-11-14 10:00:00
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Featuring Pre-Columbian, Tribal / Oceanic, Spanish Colonial, historical examples from the Spanish, Mexican, and American frontiers, fossils, and more. All items offered for sale have been legally acquired, are legal to sell and are guaranteed to be as described or your money back. Artemis Gallery info@artemisgallery.com
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- Lot Description
Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Nayarit, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A Nayarit San Sebastian Red type female mourner figure, sitting in a crouched position with hands placed on upraised knees, emaciated and nude aside from painted armbands and applied nosering and ear ornaments. Her long face with a downcast visage, painted tears streaming from her eyes, and open mouth indicate that she is singing, praying, or chanting. Many details - the pendulous breasts, incised coiffure, fingers, and toes, and pronounced spine and ribs - are quite striking. Size: 8.125" H (20.6 cm)
Clay figures like this one are the only remains that we have today of this sophisticated and unique culture in West Mexico. The indigenous of this region made no above-ground monuments or sculptures, unlike other developments in ancient Mesoamerica. Instead, their tombs were their lasting works of art: skeletons arrayed radially with their feet positioned inward, and clay offerings, like this one, placed alongside the walls facing inward, near the skulls. Some scholars have drawn connections between these dynamic sculptures of the living and the skeletal remains whose space they shared, suggesting that they perhaps mediated between the living and the dead.
Provenance: private Honolulu, Hawaii, USA collection
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#149542Minute nicks to one ear and head spout. Head reattached. Legs and lower body repaired from multiple pieces with restoration over the break lines. Nice manganese deposits and burnishing marks.Condition
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