Storyteller Figure 100/800 CE

Ameca Valley, Jalisco, Mexico

Ceramic figures in energetic poses and with lively expressions were made in the Ameca Valley, Jalisco. Like other West Mexican works of art, they were intended as offerings in tombs. The range of subjects depicted by these sculptures includes gesturing individuals whose hand positions communicated well-established meanings. This sign language has yet to be described and interpreted, but such excited figures may well be recounting

Standing Figure of a Mother and Child 100 BCE-250 CE

Standing Male Figure Holding a Ball, 100 B.C./A.D. 300

Open-Necked Vessel in the Form of a Human Head, Possibly Deceased, c. A.D. 200

Seated Maternity Figure, 100 B.C./A.D. 300

Seated Female Figure, c. A.D. 200

Seated Female Figurine with Elongated Head, 300 B.C./A.D. 300