With lively energy, using a few abstract lines, the artist has delineated the human figure. The hollow cavity suggests that this little sculpture was left as a funerary votive, filled with an offering of food or drink. A further connection to funerary ritual is made by the floral adornments which encircle the head; these appear to be peyote buds used to make connections with the spirit world. Exotic and unfamiliar though such a figure might be, it nonetheless connects us in a direct way with a distant human life not unlike our own.