Colima
Figure holding fan and feathers
Colima, 300
Physical Qualities
Earthenware, 7 1/2 in. (19 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of The Jaegal Foundation, Baltimore, George and Julianne Alderman
Object Number
1999.184.3
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's headdress consists of a helmet and mask. The mask resembles a round human face set in the center of a solar disk. From the headdress emerge blunt spikes resembling a sea sponge or anemone.
George and Julianne Alderman, Baltimore