Storyteller Figure

Ceramic figures in energetic poses and with lively expressions were made in the Ameca Valley, Jalisco. Like other West Mexican works of art, they were intended as offerings in tombs. The range of subjects depicted by these sculptures includes gesturing individuals whose hand positions communicated well-established meanings. This sign language has yet to be described and interpreted, but such excited figures may well be recounting legends or myths.

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Seated Female Figurine with Elongated Head

Seated Figure with an Elongated Head and Chin Placed on Knee

Standing Male Figure Holding a Ball

Standing Figure of a Mother and Child

Seated Maternity Figure

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Still Life—Strawberries, Nuts, &c., 1822

Elizabeth Grant Bankson Beatty (Mrs. James Beatty) and Her Daughter Susan, c. 1805

View of Cotopaxi, 1857

Distant View of Niagara Falls, 1830

Black Cross, New Mexico, 1929

The Bronco Buster, Modeled 1895, cast 1899

Early Morning, Tarpon Springs, 1892

American Gothic, 1930

Noctámbulos, 1942

Figure with Meat, 1954

El baño, 1893

American Collectors (Fred and Marcia Weisman), 1968

The Advance-Guard, or The Military Sacrifice (The Ambush), 1890

The Fountain, Villa Torlonia, Frascati, Italy, 1907

Arrangement in Flesh Color and Brown: Portrait of Arthur Jerome Eddy, 1894