'Smiling Face' Standing Male Figure

OriginLaguna de los Cerros, Veracruz, Mexico

PeriodLate Classic period (600-850 CE)

Date600-900

MediumEarthenware, black bitumen, and hand-built.

DimensionsOverall: 38.1 x 27.4 x 9 cm (15 x 10 13/16 x 3 9/16 in.)

DescriptionVeracruz standing smiling male figure, Late Classic period, with raised arms and open palms, wearing necklace, earrings, and rectangular moulded headdress with interlocking zig-zag decoration. There are traces of pigment.

Credit LineGift of George and Helen Gardiner

Object numberG83.1.82

Classifications

Ancestral Abiayala

Sub-classification

Mesoamerica

Collections

Status

Not on view

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