Standing Female with Basket

600–1000
Overall: 19.8 x 21.4 x 8.4 cm (7 13/16 x 8 7/16 x 3 5/16 in.)
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This figure's delicate face features rows of raised dots on the cheeks and the edges of the ears, perhaps representing ornamental scarification; the teeth are decoratively filed into a T or tau shape that may have had symbolic import. On her shoulder she carries a basket or bowl filled with a yet-to-be-identified bundle, perhaps marshy bulrushes. The headdress ties have been lost from one side of the head.
Standing Female with Basket

Standing Female with Basket

600–1000

Mesoamerica, Veracruz, Nopiloa style, 7th-10th century

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