Pre-Columbian / Jalisco Sculpture of a Standing Woman, 300 BCE - 300 CE
Terracotta
4.5
PF.2686
This wonderfully detailed female figure was once worn as a pendant or hung as an effigy. Her stylized headdress, necklace, and earrings suggest she is a woman of some standing....
This wonderfully detailed female figure was once worn as a pendant or hung as an effigy. Her stylized headdress, necklace, and earrings suggest she is a woman of some standing. Perhaps she was once worn as an icon or worship. She is clearly a reminder of the close connection between the temporal and the spiritual worlds from a culture now long extinct.