Cleveland Museum of Art

Standing Female with Basket

Date

600–1000

Medium

ceramic, slip

Culture

Mesoamerica, Veracruz, Nopiloa style, 7th-10th century

Department

Art of the Americas

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

This figure's delicate face features rows of raised dots on the cheeks and the edges of the ears, perhaps representing ornamental scarification; the teeth are decoratively filed into a T or tau shape that may have had symbolic import. On her shoulder she carries a basket or bowl filled with a yet-to-be-identified bundle, perhaps marshy bulrushes. The headdress ties have been lost from one side of the head.

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