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Mezcala Art : Mezcala Stone Standing Figure with a Cap
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Mezcala Stone Standing Figure with a Cap - PF.5431
Origin: Guerrero, Mexico
Circa: 300
BC
to 300
AD
Dimensions:
5.5" (14.0cm) high
Collection: Pre-Columbian
Medium: Stone
$3,000.00
Location: United States
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| Description |
The common quest of all civilizations is timeless:
survival. While our individual perceptions of the
world may change and realities may be altered,
since the dawn of man we have all yearned to
become eternal through procreation and
reproduction. This stone sculpture represents
this most elementary struggle. Like a miniature
Easter Island idol, the figure stands with open
legs, folded arms, and protruding jaw and
forehead. A small cap crowns his head. The
contours of the statue, excluding the crown,
echo the form of a phallus. Most likely, this
statue would have been used as a pestle to grind
up corn or wheat. Thus as the women of the
tribe prepared the food, they would have held in
their hands the symbol of male fertility, linking
the immediate survival of the community
through food with the procreation of the species
through copulation. All at the same time
invoking the favors of the gods. What may be
mistaken for a simple carving by primitives, is in
actuality a mighty symbol for all that sustains us,
for the basic core of human existence.
- (PF.5431)
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