Cleveland Museum of Art

Archaic Figurine

Date

400–100 BCE

Medium

earthenware with pigments

Culture

Mesoamerica, Mexico, Guanajuato, Chupícuaro

Department

Art of the Americas

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

Burials from ancient villages near Chupicuaro, Guanajuato contain hundreds of pottery offerings. These include brightly colored vessels and solid figurines decorated with appliqué and incision. The cheerful, informal figurines were probably intended to provide the dead with companionship, and to remind them of their loved ones.

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