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Chinesco Style : Chinesco Style (Type C) Nayarit Terracotta Seated Figure
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Chinesco Style (Type C) Nayarit Terracotta Seated Figure - PF.2922
Origin: Nayarit, Mexico
Circa: 300
BC
to 300
AD
Dimensions:
5.125" (13.0cm) high
x 4.75" (12.1cm) wide
Collection: Pre-Columbian
Style: Chinesco (Type C)
Medium: Terracotta
$6,000.00
Location: United States
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| Description |
In the Nayarit tradition, simple images such as
this large seated female often had an underlying
funerary symbolism, appropriate for their
function as effigy figures in shaft tomb graves.
This figure has been depicted with a flat,
rounded, almost heart-shaped face, and thin eye
slits, traits, which characterize the Chinesco style
that originated in South Western Nayarit. The
touch of the ancient artisan is still felt here
through the remnants of original paint, which
mark the figure's face and head, distinguishing it
from similar figures and giving it individual
importance.
Towards the end of the pre-classic period in
Ancient Meso-America, the regions of Colima,
Nayarit, and Jalisco in Western Mexico became
home to what has now been termed the shaft-
tomb culture. These people built tombs
consisting of shafts 10-60 feet deep with several
avoid tombs branching either directly off of the
main shaft at various levels, or connected to it by
lateral tunnels. The burial offerings, which filled
these tombs, have become our greatest link to
this lost culture. The hollow pottery figures
which were commonly placed in the tomb
chambers show stylistic variations between
regions, giving us glimpses into the cultural
differences between these groups as well as the
beliefs that they held in common.
- (PF.2922)
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