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

the couple seated in readied positions with the male defensively leaning forward raising both arms, the well articulated hands clenched, the female holding his waist and looking to her left with stern expression, both adorned with raised shoulder tattoos, beaded armbands and turbans, earrings, the male with trunks and blackened eye mask; covered overall in creamy tan with black highlights. 

Overall good, nice modeling and color, especially the faces, arms but does have repair as typically with such figures. There is repair of the male: hips, right knee, left ankle, back of right shoulder, under left arm; on the female: front area of skirt, some diagonal stretches of the back, beneath left breast/tummy join.
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Marriage couples, also known as primordial pairs, are a specific feature of Nayarit and Jalisco sculpture, with the joined figures portrayed in especially lively postures. See Gallagher (1983: fig. 119) and Townsend (1998:85, fig. 20) for the types; see also Sotheby's, November 17, 2006, lot 391.