Valdivian Terracotta Female ‘Venus’ Head
Valdivian Terracotta Female ‘Venus’ Head
Valdivian Terracotta Female ‘Venus’ Head
Valdivian Terracotta Female ‘Venus’ Head
Valdivian Terracotta Female ‘Venus’ Head
Valdivian Terracotta Female ‘Venus’ Head
Valdivian Terracotta Female ‘Venus’ Head
Valdivian Terracotta Female ‘Venus’ Head
Valdivian Terracotta Female ‘Venus’ Head
Valdivian Terracotta Female ‘Venus’ Head
Valdivian Terracotta Female ‘Venus’ Head
Valdivian Terracotta Female ‘Venus’ Head
Valdivian Terracotta Female ‘Venus’ Head
Valdivian Terracotta Female ‘Venus’ Head Valdivian Terracotta Female ‘Venus’ Head Valdivian Terracotta Female ‘Venus’ Head Valdivian Terracotta Female ‘Venus’ Head Valdivian Terracotta Female ‘Venus’ Head Valdivian Terracotta Female ‘Venus’ Head

Valdivian Terracotta Female ‘Venus’ Head

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Ecuador, Ca. 2300-2000 B.C. 

Preserved is the head of a female figurine modeled in burnished brown clay. The face is rendered in a flat, slightly recessed plane with incised slit eyes, brows, and a small mouth. The most striking feature is the elaborate coiffure — a large, voluminous hairstyle rendered with finely incised radiating lines that fan outward from the brow, a characteristic of Valdivia Venus figures. 

The Valdivia culture is renowned for producing the earliest known pottery figurines in the Western Hemisphere.
 
Valdivia figurines were individually hand-modeled and the elaborate hairstyles are a hallmark of the type and may have served as distinguishing features for individual figurines. These "Venus" figures are believed to have been used in shamanistic and fertility rituals, and many possess both feminine and masculine attributes. Size 1-5/8 inches H.  4-3/8 inches H on  wood block stand. 

 This little fragment of a figurine is from the culture from which the earliest representations of pottery figurines have thus far been found in the new world. Ex Private Florida Collection.

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