Nayarit Standing Female Votive Figure
Nayarit Standing Female Votive Figure
Nayarit Standing Female Votive Figure
Nayarit Standing Female Votive Figure
Nayarit Standing Female Votive Figure
Nayarit Standing Female Votive Figure
Nayarit Standing Female Votive Figure
Nayarit Standing Female Votive Figure
Nayarit Standing Female Votive Figure
Nayarit Standing Female Votive Figure
Nayarit Standing Female Votive Figure
Nayarit Standing Female Votive Figure
Nayarit Standing Female Votive Figure
Nayarit Standing Female Votive Figure
Nayarit Standing Female Votive Figure
Nayarit Standing Female Votive Figure
Nayarit Standing Female Votive Figure
Nayarit Standing Female Votive Figure
Nayarit Standing Female Votive Figure
Nayarit Standing Female Votive Figure Nayarit Standing Female Votive Figure Nayarit Standing Female Votive Figure Nayarit Standing Female Votive Figure Nayarit Standing Female Votive Figure Nayarit Standing Female Votive Figure Nayarit Standing Female Votive Figure Nayarit Standing Female Votive Figure Nayarit Standing Female Votive Figure

Nayarit Standing Female Votive Figure

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West Mexico, Protoclassic Period, ca. 100 BCE – 250 CE

Modeled in solid earthenware with overall red and tan slip pigments, this votive figure stands with arms bent to the waist, wearing a long skirt, a necklace, a headband, and large disc ear ornaments. The ridged nose, coffee-bean eyes, headband, and large circular ear spools are classic hallmarks of the Nayarit style sculpture produced within West Mexico's shaft-tomb tradition. Such standing female figures were placed in shaft tombs as offerings and ancestral companions, embodying themes of fertility, lineage, and the continuity of the household.

Dimensions: 7¾ in. H (approx. 19.7 cm)
Condition: Intact, with overall red and tan slip pigments remaining; surface deposits consistent with burial context.

Provenance   Estate of Dr. William K. Emerson (1925–2016), New York City.

Dr. William Keith Emerson was one of the foremost American malacologists of the 20th century and a long-serving figure at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York, where he spent more than four decades on the curatorial staff, ultimately retiring as Curator Emeritus in the Department of Invertebrates (Division of Living Invertebrates/Mollusks). He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Southern California in 1956 and joined AMNH shortly thereafter, eventually serving as Chairman of the Department of Living Invertebrates. During his tenure he led or participated in numerous scientific expeditions to the Gulf of California, the west coasts of Mexico and Central America, the Galápagos, and the Pacific coast of South America, authoring hundreds of scientific papers and describing many new molluscan species.

His fieldwork along the Pacific littoral of Mexico and Central America brought him into sustained contact with the archaeology and material culture of West Mexico, and over several decades he assembled a personal collection of Pre-Columbian ceramics — with particular strength in the shaft-tomb cultures of Jalisco, Nayarit, and Colima — alongside his scientific shell collection. Works from the Emerson estate carry the cachet of a respected AMNH scholar-collector acquired during the mid-20th century, predating modern cultural property restrictions.

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