A good-sized Jalisco Ameca group type pottery seated female figure. She is dressed in a skirt, her left hand on back of head, right hand extended. She has an incised hairdo and wearing a simple nose ring and ear ornaments. Some remaining black painted geometric tattooing on face, body and breasts.
 
Pre-Columbian Jalisco, West Mexico: Proto-Classic Period: Circa 100 BC - 250 AD.
 
Very Fine condition: complete and intact, with strong scattered mineral deposits on the surface; some minor but normal losses to the painted surface.
Height 29.5 cms (11.6 ins)
 
Provenance: Private Southern, CA. collection, ex. Clifford Baker collection, San Diego, collected 1960's.
 
For similar, see item 74: Sculpture of Ancient West Mexico: Catalogue Of The Proctor Stafford Collection at The Los Angeles County Museum Of Art. They comment that this arm gesture is common on Jalisco female figures (see Von Winning 1974 : figs 138-139, 143, 145).
 
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