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With wide hips; hands held to the front; tall coiffure, and red/brown and cream polychrome decoration.
Female Figure
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Randy Batista

Female Figure

Maker Chupícuaro Artist
Date300-100 BCE
Place of originGuanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico, North and Central America
MediumPolychrome ceramic
Dimensions11 1/8 x 5 x 2 7/8 in. (28.3 x 12.7 x 7.3 cm)
ClassificationsSculpture
Credit LineGift of Rod McGalliard
Object number1995.28.91
Collections
Visual DescriptionWith wide hips; hands held to the front; tall coiffure, and red/brown and cream polychrome decoration.
Standing female with skirt; wide chest and broad shoulders; elbows bent outward with hands on hips; small raised areas at sides of chest for breasts; large head with few features still visible; headband; arm, ear and nose ornamentation.
Female Figure
West Mexican Artist
undated
Seated figure with short, cylindrical legs splayed in front; thick body; small arms bent at elbows with hands on hips; wide head, down turned mouth; small knob between eyes at bottom of wide headband; short crown on head; four toes on each foot.
Baby Figure
Nicaraguan Artist
c. 800 - 1200
A mottled reddish-brown and black clay figurine with its hands resting on its hips. Standing on short, stubby legs, the figure features a bulbous head, large semi-circular ears, narrow slit eyes, and a prominent nose.
Female Figure
West Mexican Artist
undated
Seated Female Effigy Figure
Seated Female Effigy Figure
Mexican Artist
100 BC-100 AD
Seated Female Figure
Seated Female Figure
Mexican Artist
300-100 BCE
Seated figure with bent legs and arms at sides, ending at hips; legs taper; broad torso; no neck; large head with tall coiffure; two small knobs on either side of coiffure.
Male Figure
West Mexican Artist
undated
Seated figure with legs splayed in front; arms bent at elbows; no hands or feet; broad torso; small knobs for breasts at sides of chest; large head and nose with ornamentation at nostrils; tall coiffure with incised lines for hair.
Female Figure
West Mexican Artist
200-1 BCE
Standing figure w/ legs apart and arms bent; arms and hands are pressed to sides; wide torso; two small knobs at the sides of the chest for breasts; large head with large nose; nose ring; tall sloping coiffure w/ incised hair; hollow; pierced ears.
Female Figure
West Mexican Artist
undated
Carved from single piece of wood, standing female figure with protruding breasts, hands to hips with upturned palms, animal-like coiffure, scarification marks on face and navel, blackened and patinated surface, concave facial plane.
Standing Female Figure (madeo)
Senufo Artist
undated
Hollow buff gray potter figure; red paint around collar of armor and on upper legs and alternating with strips of cream paint on club.
Seated Armored Guardian Figure
West Mexican Artist
1-200
Seated figure with short feetless legs splayed out; broad shoulders; armbands; hands pressed to stomach area; pointed projection at nose area; tall rounded coiffure with incised linear design; traces of red and black pigmentation.
Female Figure
West Mexican Artist
undated
Miniature female figure; standing with hands on chest; arms bent in two outward curves; incised lines on hands & feet; ornamentation & painted design; large head & tall coiffure with incised lines.
Female Figure
Mexican Artist
300-100 BCE

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