Seated Figure
-900–-300
- Medium
- albitite
- Dimensions
- Overall: 11 x 6.2 x 3.9 cm (4 5/16 x 2 7/16 x 1 9/16 in.)
- Genre
- jade
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Styles
Tags
Mesoamerica, Mexico, Olmec
About
Like their contemporaries, the Olmec made figurines but of greenstone rather than clay. This one, whose identity and use are mysterious, holds objects that may address nature's fertility: on the right, perhaps a cut conch shell that refers to water, and on the left, what may be a plant or a bundle of green feathers that symbolizes new vegetation.