Nayarit Sculpture of a Kneeling Woman, 300 BCE - 300 CE
Terracotta
7.875
PF.0857
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The open mouth and white-rimmed eyes of this fasionably attired woman contain an expression of awe. Whatever has caused her to kneel so reverently through the ages must be a...
The open mouth and white-rimmed eyes of this fasionably attired woman contain an expression of awe. Whatever has caused her to kneel so reverently through the ages must be a very powerful force indeed, perhaps something as vast and elemental as life and death. Her awareness of these things heightens our own perceptions of the unknown.