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Ceramics
Mother and Child Figures
Jalisco artist, (active )
Jalisco artist
Mexico
17 5/16 x 10 3/16 x 9 1/16 in. (44 x 25.8 x 23 cm)
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Clay
Clay
Jalisco; made in Mexico
200 BCE - 500 CE
200 BCE
500
Pre-Columbian art of Central & South America
Ceramics
This depiction of a mother nursing her child embodies fertility and abundance. As humans gain sustenance and food from the earth, so the child receives life-sustaining nutrition from the mother.
Modification and adornment of the body were practiced by ancient West Mexico cultures. This figure shows skull shaping, scarification (on the shoulders), teeth filing, and adornment with elaborate ear pendants and arm bands. Skull shaping was accomplished by applying pressure to boards strapped to an infant’s head, resulting in the elongation visible in these two figures. Such modifications manifest a culture’s world view and ideas concerning beauty, status and social identification.
[Gallery label text, 2009]
1971.60
item
Memorial Art Gallery
2/3/2001
71.60SL1
slide
full
2 x 2
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negative
full
4 x 5
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glossy
full
8 x 10
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71.60DI1
digital image
2 x 2
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71.60DI#2
digital image
6/9/2009
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