A Nayarit and a Jalisco Figure, Protoclassic, ca. 100 B.C.-A.D. 250

the Nayarit male of San Sebastian style with tiny arms folded on the chest and emaciated ribs showing along the curved back, wearing jewelry and with painted geometric designs; the Jalisco female with alert expression, the body painted with cross designs. 

Mr. Thomas Robins, Jr. 
Collection of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, No. 63:4:4, for the Nayarit, and No. 63:4:2, for the Jalisco, gift from the above, 1963

 

Steven A. Nash, with Katy Kline, Charlotta Kotik and Emese Wood, Albright-Knox Art Gallery: Painting and Sculpture from Antiquity to 1942, Buffalo, New York, 1979, p. 131 and p. 133