Figure
| Culture | Colima |
|---|---|
| Title | Figure |
| Date | 200 BCE–300 CE |
| Medium | Clay and pigment |
| Dimensions | Mount: 3 × 1/8 × 3 in. (7.6 × 0.3 × 7.6 cm) Object: 6 3/4 × 3 1/2 × 1 1/2 in. (17.1 × 8.9 × 3.8 cm) Overall (includes mount): 6 7/8 × 3 1/2 × 3 in. (17.5 × 8.9 × 7.6 cm) |
| Credit Line | Gift of Dr. J. Frederick Beineke, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University |
| Accession Number | 70.104.12 |
| This artwork is currently on view. | |
A standing female figure wearing a headdress, earrings, a necklace, and a loin cloth with a sash down the left side. The figure's arms are curved and the abbreviated hands are attached to the center of the chest.
A number of small female figures survive from Mesoamerica. This figure gives an indication of Colima adornment as the figure wears a headdress, earrings, necklace, and loincloth.
1970, Gift to the Indiana University Art Museum from Dr. J. Frederick Beineke, New York, NY [1]
Unidentified date, Dr. J. Frederick Beineke acquires, New York, NY
Unidentified dates, unidentified owner(s), possibly in Mexico and/or other places [2]
Notes
[1] See correspondence from Thomas Solley to J. Frederick Beineke (Eskenazi Museum, registration files). Beineke did not provide any further provenance information to the museum including how he acquired it.
[2] We do not yet know how many changes in ownership transpired between when this artwork was initially made and owned to when J. Frederick Beineke acquired it. This absence of documentation on ownership history within the cultures where the artworks were made and used is part of a larger history of collecting practices that did not record prior ownership among communities of origin.
Provenance research is ongoing for this and many other items in the Eskenazi Museum of Art permanent collection. For more information about the provenance of this artwork, please contact the department curator with specific questions.
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"Figure | Collections Online." Collections Online. Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, 2025. https://artmuseum.indiana.edu/collections-online/browse/object.php?number=70.104.12