Female Figurine
c. 1500–500 BCE
- Medium
- earthenware with pigment
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Dimensions
- Overall: 9.8 x 3.8 x 2.2 cm (3 7/8 x 1 1/2 x 7/8 in.)
- Culture
- Mexico, Guerrero, Xalitla, Xochipala style
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Art of the Americas
- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
This delicately beautiful figurine portrays an adolescent girl wearing only boots, a belt, jewelry, and cinnabar paint. The sensitive modeling of the face and body is enhanced by the meticulous detailing of applied elements such as the coiffure and belt.
