Nayarit
Seated female figure holding a cup
Nayarit, 201-400
Physical Qualities
Earthenware, 16 in. (40.6 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Alan Wurtzburger
Object Number
1960.30.22
Female paired with chief seated with legs to side, supporting a cup on her right thigh. Figure shown wearing red and white skirt, head band, multiple earrings, nose ring, collar, and arm bands. Exposed teeth, thin, rolled clay arms, vacant stare are Nayarit sculptural conventions.
Baltimore Museum of Art. The Alan Wurtzburger Collection of Pre-Columbian Art. Baltimore, MD: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1958, no. 22, page 19.
