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Nayarit

Seated male figure holding a shell drum

Nayarit, 400-300

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Nayarit

Seated male figure holding a shell drum

Nayarit, 400-300

Physical Qualities Earthenware, polychrome, 15 1/16 × 8 11/16 × 7 1/16 in. (38.3 × 22 × 18 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of Alan Wurtzburger
Object Number 1960.30.21
Chief seated cross-legged, supporting shell drum in left hand, deer antler baton in right. Figure shown wearing head band, elaborate earrings, nose ring, collar, and arm bands. Exposed teeth, thin, rolled clay arms, vacant stare are Nayarit sculptural conventions. Paired with 1960.30.22.
"The Wurtzburger Collection Pre-Columbian Art," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1958, p.19, fig. 21.
Baltimore Museum of Art. The Alan Wurtzburger Collection of Pre-Columbian Art. Baltimore, MD: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1958, no. 21, page 19.

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2000–2000

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