Colima Sculpture of a Seated Man, 300 BCE - 300 CE
Terracotta
4.75
PF.0291
The peculiar peaked headdress that crowns this intense little figure suggests that he is a shaman, a magic man, lost in a ritual trance. Shaman figures played an important part...
The peculiar peaked headdress that crowns this intense little figure suggests that he is a shaman, a magic man, lost in a ritual trance. Shaman figures played an important part in the ancient Mexican funerary tradition, helping the deceased to transit between this world and the next. Who is to say where this fellow finds himself at this very moment, in a place so very different from the one where he began.