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| Keywords: Colima - Seated Male - Walters 20092013 - Right Side.jpg This figure-as-vessel features a seated male of commanding presence The dark red-slipped figure portrays a man with confident visage in a straightforward commanding seated position His hornlike protrusion is tied to his head with embellished embroidered cloth straps and his hip wrap is equally well decorated He also sports an elaborate necklace of large shells The horned element atop the figure's forehead suggests other interpretations particularly that of a shaman and his supernatural horn The shaman would use the horn to battle malevolent spiritual forces the horn also symbolizing his tonally vital essence and spirit power An alternative interpretation views the hornlike element as a symbol of social hierarchy and rulership sacrifice and cosmic geography and the earth's fertility It represents a prong cut from a conch shell that throughout Mesoamerica was associated with rituals of sacrifice and warfare and also expressed political rank As such the figure may be understood as portraying a person of social and political authority based on religious ideology 100 BC-AD 300 Comala Phase earthenware burnished slip paint in red and light brown with incising cm 43 4 29 1 23 2 accession number 2009 20 13 80168 Stendahl Galleries Los Angeles date and mode of acquisition unknown John G Bourne 1990s by purchase Walters Art Museum Gift of John Bourne 2009 place of origin Colima Mexico Walters Art Museum license Objects from Colima in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Jewellery made with sea shells | ||||
