Nayarit kneeling pregnant figure, San Sebastián style, Protoclassic, ca. 100 B.C.-A.D. 250

her body taut and poised for birth, with highly rounded belly, slender arms and narrowing upper back showing broad shoulders and clavicles, the proud face with narrowed recessed eyes and thin arched brows, her torso and back with black resist striped and zigzag designs, and adorned with earrings.

Dr. Paul Aleppa, acquired in the mid 1980's

Primitive Arts Gallery, Tucson

Overall excellent, appears basically intact, a repair visible on the right hip/lower buttock area. Wonderful resist design and overall demeanor.
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Female figures in various stages of womanhood are particularly prevalent in Jalisco and the San Sebastián region of Nayarit. The sculptures reference ancient mythology and "become part of a hierophany, manifesting archetypal principles that reach back to the immemorial universal idea of the earth as a goddess." (Townsend 1998:123).

Cf. Holsbeke and Arnaut (1998:cat. no. 148).