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Warrior200 BCE–400 CE

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Ceramic standing figure with wide-brimmed incised headdress, holding a diagonal staff, in mottled gray and terracotta clay
Ceramic standing figure with dark gray-brown surface, wearing a wide-brimmed collar and horned headdress with incised linear decoration, one arm raised toward the face, on simplified columnar legs.
Ceramic figure with two columnar legs supporting a wide, bell-shaped body covered in incised diagonal line patterns; small modeled head with horned headdress at top; earthen red-brown and gray surface.
Ceramic standing figure with dark burnished surface, wearing an incised conical hat with upright prongs and a wide-brimmed cylindrical garment with crosshatch-incised decoration, holding a staff in one raised hand, with simplified facial features and bare legs and feet.
Two pre-Columbian ceramic figures: a smaller seated figure in red-orange slip with raised arms holding a bowl, with incised geometric decoration on the torso; and a taller standing dark-gray figure wearing a wide-brimmed hat with horns and holding a staff, with textured surface detailing.
Title
Warrior
Culture
Nayarit
Place Made
Mexico, Nayarit
Date Made
200 BCE–400 CE
Medium
Slip-painted ceramic
Dimensions
21 3/4 × 9 1/4 × 8 1/4 in. (55.25 × 23.5 × 20.96 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Constance McCormick Fearing
Accession Number
M.86.311.28
Classification
Ceramics
Collecting Area
Art of the Ancient Americas
Selected Bibliography
  • Kaplan, Wendy, ed. Found in Translation: Design in California and Mexico, 1915-1985. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich: DelMonico Books-Prestel, 2017.