The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 13, 2025

Standing Female Figure

c. 100 BCE–300 CE

Mexico, Nayarit, Ixtlan del Rio style

earthenware with colored slips
Overall: 48 x 30.8 x 16 cm (18 7/8 x 12 1/8 x 6 5/16 in.)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James C. Gruener 1990.266.2
Location: Not on view

Description

Nagarit ceramic sculputres, like those of Colima, were manufactured for burial with the dead. The popular male-female couples may be portraits of the individuals with whom they were buried. This female figure, dressed in a colorful skirt and hat, has painted or tattooed patterns on her torso and face. Jewelry adorns her face, ears, and nose. The vessel on her shoulder symbolizes her domestic duties.
  • Ramon Ramirez, Indio, CA
    1970
    James and Florence Gruener, Cleveland
    (Ramon Ramirez, Indio, CA); James and Florence Gruener, Cleveland, 1970
  • Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art; February 4 - November 29, 1992. "The Gruener Collection of Pre-Columbian Art." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art. 79 (September, 1992.) cat. no. 30, p. 269, repr. fig. 30, p. 244.
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