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'Baby-face' Figure

'Baby-face' Figure

Artist Olmec artist(s)

CultureOlmec

OriginLas Bocas, Puebla, Mexico

PeriodFormative Period (2000 BCE-300 CE)

Date1100-800 BCE

MediumEarthenware, white slip, pigment, burnishing, and hand-built.

DimensionsOverall: 41.6 x 34.3 x 32 cm (16 3/8 x 13 1/2 x 12 5/8 in.)

DescriptionLarge hollow Olmec seated baby, Formative period, with hands held to the thighs of the wide spread legs with outward turned feet, arms fragmentary and leaning slightly forward. Figure has a parted mouth and incised teeth, as well as perforated pupils, earlobes, stomach, and domed coiffure. It is painted greyish-buff with areas of red pigment.

Credit LineGift of George and Helen Gardiner

Object numberG83.1.10

Classifications

Ancestral Abiayala

Sub-classification

Mesoamerica

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Status

Not on view

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