Emaciated Crouching Figure
-100–300
- Medium
- earthenware with burnished red slip
- Dimensions
- Overall: 14 x 8.9 x 8.9 cm (5 1/2 x 3 1/2 x 3 1/2 in.)
- Genre
- Sculpture
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Styles
Tags
Mexico, Nayarit, San Sebastian Red Style
About
The protruding ribs and staring eyes of this melancholy figure may show the effects of a ritual fast, rather than famine. Fasting purified an individual in preparation for religious rites and may have enhanced the search for supernatural visions.