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Standing Female with Basket

600-1000

The Cleveland Museum of Art

The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States

This figure's delicate face features rows of raised dots on the cheeks and the edges of the ears, perhaps representing ornamental scarification; the teeth are decoratively filed into a T or tau shape that may have had symbolic import. On her shoulder she carries a basket or bowl filled with a yet-to-be-identified bundle, perhaps marshy bulrushes. The headdress ties have been lost from one side of the head.

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  • Title: Standing Female with Basket
  • Date Created: 600-1000
  • Physical Dimensions: Overall: 19.8 x 21.4 x 8.4 cm (7 13/16 x 8 7/16 x 3 5/16 in.)
  • Type: Ceramic
  • Rights: CC0
  • External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/2004.67
  • Medium: ceramic, slip
  • Department: Art of the Americas
  • Culture: Mesoamerica, Veracruz, Nopiloa style, 7th-10th century
  • Credit Line: General Acquisition Fund
  • Collection: AA - Mesoamerica
  • Accession Number: 2004.67

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