Miniature Colima Female Figure Provenance: Otto Seligman Gallery

Provenance: Otto Seligman Gallery

size: 15 x 17 x 17

Collection Joseph Greenberg

Art Gallery New York and Tree of Life stamps on the back)

the inhabitants of Jalisco and the nearby states of Nayarit and Colima constructed elaborate underground shaft-and-chamber tombs

Miniature Colima Female Figure Provenance: Otto Seligman GalleryMiniature Standing pregnant female figure from the Colima peoples of western Mexico who lived from 300 BC 300 AD. This figure was placed in a burial tomb shaft to accompany the dead in the afterlife. Her stomach appears to show a face hinting that this is a pregnant female figure. The figure is on a custom stand. Height: 4. 25 in H Provenance: The WIlliam Segal Gallery Santa Fe, New Mexico