Colima Seated Female Figure

Sandy-orange figure with a chunky headwrap and a face full of character.

This seated female figure from the Colima culture in terra cotta is Colima, from West Mexico, Mexico. Western Mexican shaft-tomb ceramics were hand modeled and slip-painted, and seated women with rounded forms are a recurring subject in the region's clay sculpture. Seated terracotta-toned figure with a bulbous cap, wide ears, and a round, flat face with a prominent mouth. Short stub arms rest across a rounded belly wrapped with a band. Dark speckles dot the chest and shoulders, and one arm is chipped. It is 2.75 inches wide, 2.25 deep and 4.25 high.

Whatever it is thinking, it thinks it firmly.