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Veracruz

Figure holding a rattle

Veracruz, 550-950

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Veracruz

Figure holding a rattle

Veracruz, 550-950

Physical Qualities Earthenware, 15 1/2 × 10 × 4 1/2 in. (39.4 × 25.4 × 11.4 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of Bernice Barth, Los Angeles
Object Number 2003.168
Hollow with reddish gray color. Standing with arms raised, wearing a long and wide skirt with a lower bank of step-frets, a middle band of profile deity heads, and an upper section of three panels with step-fret and wave patterns. The left hand holds a rattle. Wearing large earrings and a close-fitting cap ornamented with a curling monkey tail design.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift 2003; Bernice Barth, Los Angeles

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Veracruz

2000–2000

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