Colima
Figure holding fan and feathers
Colima, 300
Physical Qualities
Earthenware, 9 1/4 in. (23.5 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of The Jaegal Foundation, Baltimore, George and Julianne Alderman
Object Number
1999.184.11
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 which partly conceals a small human face within. The crest of the helmet is crescent-shaped; the crescent runs from the forehead to the nape of the neck. Three groups of 10 "reeds" protrude from the crest. The figure wears a knee-length feathered tunic and a single strand of spherical beads at the neck.
George and Julianne Alderman, Baltimore