Nayarit Seated Warrior Figure

Horned cap, patterned armor, and the expression of a man nobody told the plan.

This seated warrior figure is terra cotta, by the Nayarit people of West Mexico, 200 B.C.E. to C.E. 200. Hollow ceramic figures from this region were placed in the shaft tomb burials of ancient West Mexico, perhaps as companions or guardians for the dead, though many details remain debated. He sits with bent legs on a stout, barrel-like body, wearing a banded cuirass of incised pattern. Both forearms cross the chest with what may be a club. A pointed cap with two horns sits high on the head. Fourteen and a half inches high.

Two thousand years of waiting for orders.