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Kislak Collection -- Olmec Objects |
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SEATED MALE FIGURE Mexico, Las Bocas Olmec culture 1100-500 B.C.E. Cream-slipped ceramic Ht. 13.5 cm (5.4") Hand-modeled corpulent figure seated cross-legged, with left hand over knee. The flesh areas are burnished, but not the hair zone or the split kilt. Red paint touches the tip of the nose, mouth, and chin, as well as the waist line and toes. Body features are picked out with incising, and tiny drill holes mark the ears, nostrils, and mouth corners on this extremely naturalistic figure. The left side of his arm and thigh reveal traces of black body painting (profile human faces?), now mostly obscured by superficial black deposits. (Compare with Feuchtwanger, 1989, frontispiece, for a group of these same figurines, doubtless created by the same hand.) [Source: http://www.jayikislakfoundation.org/collections_olmec.html] |
| The Jay I. Kislak Collection of pre-Columbian cultural heritage materials is owned by the Library of Congress. Photograph shot and presented here with permission. |
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Stephanie Wood. |