A stylised, flattened terracotta standing human figure wearing a rope-twist headband and a multi-pendant necklace. The reverse is unmodelled.
 
Pre-Columbian West Mexico, Michoacan: Circa 100 BC- 250 AD
 
Complete and intact; with some surface weathering.
Height 13.5 cms (5.3 ins)
 
Provenance: Private NYC. collection, acquired from Arte Primitivo, 1990's.
 
The pre-Columbian culture of Michoacán, Mexico was rich and diverse, with skilled artisans, a unique architecture, and a prized economy. The people of Michoacán were known as the Purépecha, or Tarascan, and their empire was second in size only to the Aztecs. The figure is a more simplified and stylised evolution of the earlier "pretty lady" figure types.