A nayarit standing male figure, Protoclassic, ca. 100 B.C.-A.D. 250

with exaggerated voluminous legs and body, leaning forward with a mace-headed club on the right shoulder and holding a cup in the left, the spine showing, ridged coiffure flanked by striated locks of hair, brightly covered in orange pigment with resist designs in wavy lines on the body, and bands of polka-dot design on the club.

Stendahl Gallery

Jacques Sarlie Collection

Acquired from the above, ca. 1968

Dallas, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Pre-Columbian Art, 1950, forward to the exhibition catalogue by Alfred Stendahl, pg. 27, illus

Hasso von Winning, Pre-Columbian Art of Mexico and Central America, New York, 1968, colorplate 165

overall very good, has partial restoration on the small cup, and repairs to left wrist and upper arm ; repairs on right foot at back . .
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Cf. Parsons (1980: fig. 77), for a similar figure with knopped club and resist body decoration, in the Morton May Collection, St. Louis Art Museum.