Lot 182
  • 182

a Chontal stone figure, Late Preclassic, ca. 300-100 B.C.

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 USD
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Description

representing a shaman as distinguished by ear ornaments and the headdress with two conical projections, with long coffee-bean eyes, and arms draped on the belly above the “cache sex,"  in mottled stone.

Provenance

Acquired in 1978

Catalogue Note

Cf. Gay and Pratt (1992: pls. 25, 31 and 34), for the type, characterized as late phase Chontal.