Nayarit Standing Female Figure, San Sebastian style, Protoclassic, circa 100 BC - AD 250

John Huston, St Clerans, Craughwell, County Galway, and California, acquired during the 1940s - 1970s
Andy Williams, California, acquired from the above on June 25, 1985
Andy and Deborah Williams, California

The stoic female stands on high arched feet with short arms placed tightly to her chest beneath prominent breasts. Her broad waistband is a swirling design of spirals denoting her lineage affiliation or perhaps defining a period of her initiation rites. With alert expression, she is ornamented with four necklaces and her striated coiffure radiates neatly from her central part with a plait running down the back. 

For the type, see Jacki Gallagher, Companions of the Dead: Ceramic Tomb Sculpture from Ancient West Mexico, Los Angeles, 1983, p. 104, fig. 138.