Kneeling Figure Making Masa with Mano and Metate, Food Offerings and Shaft Tomb Model
300 B.C. – A.D. 300
Ceramic: Brown clay with red burnished slip
Shaft Tomb Culture
West Mexico: Colima
Courtesy of MAW Collection, honoring a group of friends
English Description
Spanish Description
English Description
An androgynous figure with shoulder scarification knees in front of a metate using a mano to grind nixtamalized corn, forever making masa in the afterlife. Offerings of masa have been discovered in shaft tomb models with the purpose of nourishing the deceased in the afterlife.
Spanish Description
Una figura andrógina con cicatrices en el hombro arrodillada frente a un metate moliendo maíz nixtamlizado con la ayuda de una mano, eternamente haciendo masa. Ofrendas con masa han sido descubiertas en modelos de tumbas con el proposito de alimentar al difunto en el inframundo.
