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Nayarit

Male figure

Nayarit, 250-300

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Nayarit

Male figure

Nayarit

Male figure

Nayarit, 250-300

Physical Qualities Earthenware, red and cream slip paint, 9 7/16 × 4 5/16 × 2 3/4 in. (24 × 11 × 7 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of Edith Black, Potomac, Maryland, in Memory of her Husband, Jack Black
Object Number 1991.228
Seated on a peg throne, holding a striped baton horizontally across chest. Clothing or armour indicated by a ridge just below the shoulders and vertical red and cream lines around the body. Face and neck are red, legs have horizontal red and cream stripes. Has a hole on top of head and another on the back above the cloth ridge.

Inscribed: '1981.44.8' painted in red on white line on back.

Culture

Nayarit

2000–2000

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