Cleveland Museum of Art
Emaciated Crouching Figure
- Date
- c. 100 BCE–300 CE
- Medium
- earthenware with burnished red slip
- Culture
- Mexico, Nayarit, San Sebastian Red Style
- Department
- Art of the Americas
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
The protruding ribs and staring eyes of this melancholy figure may show the effects of a ritual fast, rather than famine. Fasting purified an individual in preparation for religious rites and may have enhanced the search for supernatural visions.
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