Pre-Columbian Art / Veracruz Press-Molded Sculpture of a Standing Priest, 300 CE - 900 CE
Terracotta
20.625
PF.0670
Wearing an ornate headdress, heavy jewelry, and with details picked out in black bitumen, this figure stands absorbed in his prayers. His face bears a look of intense concentration-the eyes...
Wearing an ornate headdress, heavy jewelry, and with details picked out in black bitumen, this figure stands absorbed in his prayers. His face bears a look of intense concentration-the eyes mere slits and the mouth slightly open as if chanting. He remains in this perpetual ritual state, praying to gods the rest of the world has forgotten.