Model Depicting a Ritual Center

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Model Depicting a Ritual Center

Ceramist unknown (Nayarit)LinkedCulture matchlcp-bd1bf4c02d5e

Date
100–800 CE
Medium
Earthenware and pigment
Culture
Nayarit state
Department
Arts of the Americas
Institution
Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID
75238

In West Mexico, chiefdoms and statelike societies flourished between A.D. 100 and 800. Advanced agriculture, extensive trade routes, and elaborate religious festivals echoed developments in other regions of ancient Mesoamerica. The distinctive West Mexican sculptures were often included as offerings in tombs that illustrate important themes of life and the afterlife. This model of a circular ceremonial center depicts houselike temples, populated by flute players, a drummer, conch-shell trumpeters, dancers, women with children, and animals. A masked figure—likely the ruler—stands atop the central stepped pyramid.

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Credit line
Gift of Ethel and Julian Goldsmith
Provenance
Ethel Goldsmith (1919–2017; born Frank) and Julian Goldsmith (1918–1999), Chicago, Nov. 1960 [Goldsmith Collection document; Oct. 1990; copy in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1989.

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AAT300301253

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