Imagine the story this ceramic figure could tell.
This animated earthenware figure comes from Jalisco’s Ameca Valley. Figures of this tradition accompanied life and burial, though the particular message this apparent storyteller once conveyed is no longer known.
Source: Art Institute of Chicago
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Digital image courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago. Bequest of Ruth Falkenau Fund in memory of her parents; public CC0 mirror at Artheon Museum.
Creator: Ceramist unknown (Jalisco) Ameca Valley, Jalisco, Mexico
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