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'Baby-face' Figure

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
Ancient Americas
Sub-classification
Mesoamerica
Status
On view
'Baby-face' Figure
Artist / Maker: Unknown Artist
1100-800 BCE
Object number: G83.1.9
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Artist / Maker: Unknown Artist
1100-800 BCE
Object number: G83.1.11
Small 'Baby' Figure
Artist / Maker: Unknown Artist
1200-900 BCE
Object number: G83.1.13
Standing Female Figure
Artist / Maker: Unknown Artist
300 BCE - 300 CE
Object number: G83.1.61
Standing Female Figure
Artist / Maker: Unknown Artist
1100-800 BCE
Object number: G83.1.4
Standing Female Figure
1100-800 BCE
Object number: G83.1.1201
Face Mask
Artist / Maker: Unknown Artist
300 BCE - 300 CE
Object number: G83.1.36
Figure of a Seated Hunchback
Artist / Maker: Unknown Artist
300 BCE - 300 CE
Object number: G83.1.30
Pair of Standing Female Figures
Artist / Maker: Unknown Artist
300 BCE - 100 CE
Object number: G83.1.25.1 -2
Standing Female Figure
Artist / Maker: Unknown Artist
300 BCE - 300 CE
Object number: G83.1.45
Standing Female Figure
Artist / Maker: Unknown Artist
800-1100
Object number: G83.1.150
Zacatecas Female Figure
Artist / Maker: Unknown Artist
200-500 CE
Object number: G83.1.17