Figure of a Woman in Ceremonial Dress
Veracruz, Classic (Veracruz, south-central Gulf Coast, Mexico)
700–900
- Medium
- Ceramic
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Dimensions
- H.: 35.6 cm (14 in.)
- Culture
- Southern Veracruz
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of the Americas
- Credit line
- Harold L. Stuart Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
In the afterlife, it was the role of deceased noble ancestors to communicate with the deified forces of nature on behalf of their people. Presented as offerings at ancestral shrines, mold-made figures of this kind were sometimes reshaped while the clay was still moist to give them more individualized facial features.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
