NAYARIT SEATED FIGURE

IXTLAN DEL RIO STYLE, PROTOCLASSIC, CA. 100 B.C. - A.D. 250

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NAYARIT SEATED FIGURE
IXTLAN DEL RIO STYLE, PROTOCLASSIC, ca. 100 B.C. - A.D. 250
the diseased male figure with bloated belly, covered with inflammed sores, leaning and supported by his left hand, the right hand placed to the back of his thigh, adorned with jewelry and striated coiffure, painted overall in reddish brown.
Height 11 3/4 in. (29.9 cm.)

Provenance

Formerly in the Weisman Collection of Pre-Columbian Medical Sculptures

Exhibited

New York, The Weisman Collection of Pre-Columbian Medical Scupltures, The New York Academy of Medicine,1965, no. 88.

Lot Essay

Cf. Townsend, fig. 15

It has been suggested that such diseased figures might suffer from yaws, a treponemal skin infection occuring primarily in tropical climates.

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