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| Keywords: Nayarit - Seated Male - Walters 20092061.jpg Lagunillas figures often portray men usually in a seated position with elbows resting on bent knees and forearms crossed on top of each other The torso leans forward and the face gazes downward This figure's loins are wrapped in a relatively wide hip cloth of unadorned fabric He wears a textile or plant fiber triple-strand band around his head a forelock of hair falling below the band His face is extensively painted with black designs including masklike half circles around his eyes and whisker-like motifs extending outward from the corners of his mouth Arm and ankle bands perhaps made of cut shell adorn his limbs; similar multi-stringed ornaments have been found adorning corporeal remains in many tombs from this region 300 BC-AD 200 burnished earthenware slip paint cm 46 2 27 2 35 4 accession number 2009 20 61 80216 Stendahl Galleries Los Angeles date and mode of acquisition unknown John G Bourne 1960s by purchase Walters Art Museum Gift of John Bourne 2009 place of origin Nayarit Mexico Walters Art Museum license Nayarit Pre-Columbian pottery in the Walters Art Museum Nayarit pottery Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
