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figures (representations)
"Smiling" Figure
After the growth of the Olmec culture, the focus of Mesoamerican civilisation shifted towards the northward coast of the Gulf of Mexico. With its political and religious centre in El Tajín, the capital of the Totonac Empire, Veracruz culture showed a great mastery of the ceramic technique, with the production of modelled statues for funerary use. Originally, they were polychromatic and chapopote (…
Creator
- Veracruz
Type of item
- figures (representations)
- Figure
Creator
- Veracruz
Type of item
- figures (representations)
- Figure
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Rights
- Museu de Cultures del Món
Creation date
- 0300/0900
Places
- Mexico
- Mexico
Identifier
- MCM 1 12
- http://hdl.handle.net/10970/objects/H601326
Extent
- 38,5 x 25 x 10,5 cm
Providing country
- Spain
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2015-06-15T16:28:44.793Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2016-04-13T14:59:19.193Z