Authentic Colima pottery from West Mexico, 300 BC to AD 300: redware dogs, figures, incense burners and effigy vessels.
Colima is the southernmost of the three states, with Jalisco and Nayarit, whose ancient peoples buried their dead in deep shaft tombs cut through the volcanic soil. The pottery placed in those tombs is the most naturalistic in ancient Mexico. Colima potters worked in a burnished red slip and modeled what they saw: dogs, parrots, armadillos, frogs and conch shells, drummers and seated women, often as hollow vessels with a spout at the back. The plump dogs are the best known. They are usually taken to be the hairless breed raised for food and believed to guide the dead to the underworld, and a dog was placed in most tombs.
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