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Middle Preclassic, ca. 1200 to 500 B.C. Central Highlands, Mexico.
Standing with truncated arms, wide hips, overall painted in yellow ochre slip pigment on body and she is adorned with necklace and high applied fillet hair and headdress
Size 4-3/4 inches Height + custom mount. Right arm repaired; choice.
Compare similar example in The Jaguar's Children: Pre-Classic Central Mexico. by Coe, Michael D. NY: Museum of Primitive Art, 1965.
Provenance: Private Mercer Island WA collection by descent from Ruth Goldwyn Capps & Henry McClure Capps (known as Mac) who was an art director and production designer for TV & films in the mid-1950s.
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