Figurilla de mujer con niño

This small figure was made with a mold; in the hollow interior some stones were placed, so when it is shaken it sounds like a rattle. It was covered with red slip and it was given a polished finished. It represents a woman holding a girl that is identical to her with the right arm and holding a boy with the left arm. In the old style of the native women, she is bare-chested and is wearing a skirt or tangle tied around her waist like a belt. She has circular earflaps and a three-thread necklace. There are two holes under the arms, which might have served to hang the rattle. This kind of figurines, identified as mother goddesses, were mainly used for domestic worship, although many similar copies were found and associated to burials in pots that were deposited in front of the temple of Ehécatl in Tlatelolco. As some of these burials contained remains of children, it is possible that they had also been used as toys when they were alive. Arqlga. Bertina Olmedo Vera