San Sebastian style hollow female ceramic anthropomorphic figure

San Sebastian style hollow female ceramic / Mesoamerican

Essay/Description

Funerary sculpture. Lagunillas style. Hollow construction.

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Anthropology Item Information

©Gilcrease Museum

Title(s):

San Sebastian style hollow female ceramic

Culture:

Mesoamerican

Date:

300 BCE - 200 CE

Period:

Late Preclassic

Place:

Nayarit, México

Materials/Techniques:

clay

Classification:

Archaeological Objects

Object Type:

Ceramic Anthropomorphic Figure

Accession No:

54.3879

Department:

Collection:

Kravis Discovery Center

Not On View

Dimensions

Overall:

Height: 1 24/25in. (5.0cm)
Width: 4 5/16in. (10.9cm)
Length: 10 1/2in. (26.7cm)

Tags and Search Terms

Tags:

Art, Body, ceramics, Ceremonial, clay, decoration, effigies, effigy, effigys, female, hairstyles, imagery, Mesoamerica, Mesoamerican, Mexican, México, Nayarit, Precolumbian, Pre-Columbian, pregnancy, prehistoric, sculpture, woman

Lagunillas style

Lagunillas style indicates the predominant style of ceramics associated with the workshops of the San Pedro Lagunillas region of Nayarit, Mexico.

Cite this Page

San Sebastian style hollow female ceramic. 54.3879. Kravis Discovery Center. 300 BCE - 200 CE. Tulsa: Gilcrease Museum, https://collections.gilcrease.org/object/543879 (05/26/2017).

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