Museum Expedition 1907, Museum Collection Fund

This is an unfired clay figure with what could be considered a nose and two breasts. The nose is outlined with dots as if a necklace and the breasts have two rows of dots between them. There is another double row of dots which slants diagonally from the bottom to the right breast.

Museum Expedition 1905, Museum Collection Fund

Museum Expedition 1904, Museum Collection Fund

Museum Expedition 1904, Museum Collection Fund

Museum Expedition 1904, Museum Collection Fund

Museum Expedition 1941, Frank L. Babbott Fund

Seated man and woman joined at the legs and facing each other. The woman holds a bowl for her companion, who brings a drinking tube to his mouth. One of the man's arms is gently draped over the woman's shoulder. This sculpture is in the Ameca-Etzatlán style which is characterized by elongated heads; large, carved eyes; straight, naturalistic noses; and open mouths displaying incised teeth. The elongated heads are consistent with cranial deformation - the flattening of the infant's cranium - which was probably a sign of prestige. Both figures wear almost identical hair styles or headdresses with a headband decorated with appliqué dots. Additional adornments include earspools, leg bands (on the man), a skirt (on the woman), and appliqué dots on the shoulders possibly representing decorative scarification. Condition: good; some surface abrasions and chips.

Gift of Emma and Jay Lewis

Gift in memory of Frederic Zeller