A Jalisco Joined Couple, Protoclassic, ca. 100 B.C.-A.D. 250

the female gently touching her mate on the shoulders and the male playing a double flute, each with similar facial features, and brightly painted with a lively pattern of dots on the body, with cicatrice tattoos, and turbans secured by patterned headbands with ties down the back.

Cf. Sotheby's, May 19, 2001, lot 487, for a platform group from the same workshop, showing the same style and coloration.