Colima
Figure holding fan and feathers
Colima, 300
Physical Qualities
Earthenware, 8 1/8 in. (20.7 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of The Jaegal Foundation, Baltimore, George and Julianne Alderman
Object Number
1999.184.23
One of 23 figures grouped as a troop of ritual dancers. This example is shown with outstretched arms; the proper right hand grasps a "fan", the left hand, a stick-like bundle (may be a rattle, bundle of feathers, reeds). The performer wears a knee-length feathered tunic. His headdress consists of a helmet and mask. The mask resembles a whiskered sea lion or otter set in the center of a solar disk. From either side of the headdress emerge blunt spikes. The back of the headdress remembles the bill of a duck.
George and Julianne Alderman, Baltimore