head, figurine

Figurine head. Mould made. Wearing jaguar headdress. Only the jaguar eyes with feathered surrounds, part of the head, nose and mouth survive, the top, corners and one side being broken out. The jaguar lip is depicted as strip of overlapping discs with five vertical grooves for the front teeth below and pointed canines (the remainder abraded). The figurine face has lidded and rimmed eyes, abraded nose and open mouth. Both thick-rimmed earspools, with raised dots in the indented centres, are intact. Broken at the neck. Back rough, slightly concave. Very small trace of white pigment on the front.