Cleveland Museum of Art
Standing Female Figure
- Date
- c. 1000–1500
- Medium
- stone
- Culture
- Mexico, Gulf Coast, Huastec
- Department
- Art of the Americas
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 155441
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
The female depicted in this sculpture wears a serpent-maw headdress—the female’s head appears within the jaws of the serpent, whose eyes can be seen on the “fan” of stone around the head. Many elite Mesoamerican people of the period are shown wearing similar headdresses, suggesting that such sculptures represent noble women. In the past, they have been interpreted as supernatural beings. The position of the figure’s hands on her belly may suggest motherhood.
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Provenance & credit
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- Credit line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James C. Gruener
- Provenance
- ?-1969: John A. Stokes, Upper Nyack, NY, gift to James C. and Florence C. Gruener | 1969-1990: James C. [1903-1990] and Florence C. [1908-1982] Gruener, Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art | 1990: The Cleveland Museum of Art
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