Miniature Colima Female Figure Provenance: Otto Seligman Gallery

Provenance: Otto Seligman Gallery

1980 By Guy Anderson

circa 1960s

carved in basalt volcanic ruff

the inhabitants of Jalisco and the nearby states of Nayarit and Colima constructed elaborate underground shaft-and-chamber tombs

Miniature Colima Female Figure Provenance: Otto Seligman GalleryMiniature Standing pregnant female figure from the Colima peoples of western Mexico who lived from 300 BC 300 AD. This figure was placed in a burial tomb shaft to accompany the dead in the afterlife. Her stomach appears to show a face hinting that this is a pregnant female figure. The figure is on a custom stand. Height: 4. 25 in H Provenance: The WIlliam Segal Gallery Santa Fe, New Mexico