Carved stone figure, light grey/yellow in colour. It is roughly triangular in shape and depicts a seated human figure, with knees drawn up and hands on knees. A tall headdress decorated with incising frames the face and runs down the back of the figure. There is a perforation in the base. [JC [OPS Move] 29/6/2017]

Collection type: Object
Description: Carved stone figure, light grey/yellow in colour. It is roughly triangular in shape and depicts a seated human figure, with knees drawn up and hands on knees. A tall headdress decorated with incising frames the face and runs down the back of the figure. There is a perforation in the base. [JC [OPS Move] 29/6/2017]
Geographical reference: Mexico
Latin America and the Caribbean > Central America > Mexico
Person: Field collector Unknown Collector; PRM source George Anthony Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1899
Date collected: By 1899
Acquisition information: Donated: 27/10/2010
Materials and processes: Material Stone, Process Carved, Process Perforated, Process Incised
Dimensions: Height: max 115 mm, Depth: max 46 mm, Width: max 53 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 2010.78.5
Research and responses: This collection was looked at by Rosemary Joyce on the 2nd of December 2010 as part of the Fell Funded project "Characterising the World Archaeology Collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum'. Rosemary advised that these objects are without doubt examples of 19th century tourist art. So not 'archaeological', but none the less interesting for those looking at tourist art, especially in the 19th century. [FC 05/01/2011]
General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers obtained this object from George Fabian Lawrence, an antiquary, collector and dealer in antiquities. In the 1880’s became an antiquities dealer, opening a shop in Wandsworth. [FC 05/01/2011]

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