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.
