Anthropomorphous figure

Anthropomorphous motifs are widespread on clay figures from the Cundinamarca and Boyacá high plains. This one depicts a man whose eyes and mouth have been made from double strips in order to create the typical "coffee bean" feature. The chroniclers of the conquest tell how priests used to have pairs of these kinds of figures on their shrines, and some documents say that at least some of them were portraits of the ruling chiefs.