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CLAY SCULPTURE OF WESTERN MEXICO: COLIMA STYLE
Great numbers of beautifully modeled clay figures have been found in graves. in Western Mexico, primarily in the states of Colima, Nayarit and Jalisco. They stand as an engaging display of people and animals in many different poses and activities, almost as if the ancient peoples were using sculpture to document their way of life for us.
The sculptures shown here typify what is known as the Colima style, marked by soft rounded forms with smoothly finished red or brown surfaces and seldom painted; human figures usually appear without clothing. Most of the sculptures are also jugs or vessels and may have been used to contain offerings of food and drink to sustain the dead on their journeys in the afterworld.
The graves these sculptures come from are deep shaft tombs, few of which have been carefully excavated. We thus know little of the arrangements of things in them and of the kinds of objects found associated within individual tombs. They date from about 200 B.C, to A.D. 600.
Elegantly formed large jars are among the most plentiful objects in the Colima shaft tombs.
Often grooved vertically, they have the form of pumpkins or melons; other fruits and plants are depicted in a variety of ingenious ways. The mask above is an especially fine example of a common tomb object. Like the stone "masks" of other cultures in Middle America, the eyes of this one remain unperforated. It may have been attached to a wrapped body at the time of burial.
Blacklist at Mercury Lounge, 11/12/22, celebrating the release of their record Afterworld. Hosted by The Red Party.
Blacklist at Mercury Lounge, 11/12/22, celebrating the release of their record Afterworld. Hosted by The Red Party.
Blacklist at Mercury Lounge, 11/12/22, celebrating the release of their record Afterworld. Hosted by The Red Party.
Blacklist at Mercury Lounge, 11/12/22, celebrating the release of their record Afterworld. Hosted by The Red Party.
Blacklist at Mercury Lounge, 11/12/22, celebrating the release of their record Afterworld. Hosted by The Red Party.
Blacklist at Mercury Lounge, 11/12/22, celebrating the release of their record Afterworld. Hosted by The Red Party.
Blacklist at Mercury Lounge, 11/12/22, celebrating the release of their record Afterworld. Hosted by The Red Party.
Blacklist at Mercury Lounge, 11/12/22, celebrating the release of their record Afterworld. Hosted by The Red Party.
Blacklist at Mercury Lounge, 11/12/22, celebrating the release of their record Afterworld. Hosted by The Red Party.
Blacklist at Mercury Lounge, 11/12/22, celebrating the release of their record Afterworld. Hosted by The Red Party.
Blacklist at Mercury Lounge, 11/12/22, celebrating the release of their record Afterworld. Hosted by The Red Party.
Blacklist at Mercury Lounge, 11/12/22, celebrating the release of their record Afterworld. Hosted by The Red Party.
Blacklist at Mercury Lounge, 11/12/22, celebrating the release of their record Afterworld. Hosted by The Red Party.
Blacklist at Mercury Lounge, 11/12/22, celebrating the release of their record Afterworld. Hosted by The Red Party.
Blacklist at Mercury Lounge, 11/12/22, celebrating the release of their record Afterworld. Hosted by The Red Party.
Blacklist at Mercury Lounge, 11/12/22, celebrating the release of their record Afterworld. Hosted by The Red Party.
Blacklist at Mercury Lounge, 11/12/22, celebrating the release of their record Afterworld. Hosted by The Red Party.
Blacklist at Mercury Lounge, 11/12/22, celebrating the release of their record Afterworld. Hosted by The Red Party.
Blacklist at Mercury Lounge, 11/12/22, celebrating the release of their record Afterworld. Hosted by The Red Party.
Blacklist at Mercury Lounge, 11/12/22, celebrating the release of their record Afterworld. Hosted by The Red Party.
Blacklist at Mercury Lounge, 11/12/22, celebrating the release of their record Afterworld. Hosted by The Red Party.
Blacklist at Mercury Lounge, 11/12/22, celebrating the release of their record Afterworld. Hosted by The Red Party.
Blacklist at Mercury Lounge, 11/12/22, celebrating the release of their record Afterworld. Hosted by The Red Party.