Jalisco ceremonial platform Group, Protoclassic, ca. 100 B.C.-A.D. 250

the village festival with sixteen figures engaging in a lively ceremony, with eight male musicians playing flutes and shaking rattles, three naked male dancers in the center, and  three females in long skirts on the perimeter, all with various headdresses.

Acquired before 1970

Overall good but many figures broken and reglued at the feet. Details of dress and instruments generall very good, patina worn and many areas with old dirt encrusted.
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Village ceremonies were important annual activities, bringing together the community for harvest festivals or ancestor celebrations. The platform groups form "...a visual text presenting an inventory of basic religious, social and economic activities and the settings in which they took place". These sculptures can be linked to the archaeological finds of circular ritual spaces in areas of Colima and Nayarit; see Townsend in Townsend, ed. (1998:108-109, and pgs. 109 and 133) for examples of platform groups.