Exploring the Early Americas

The Jay I. Kislak Collection

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This is one of the smallest West Mexican ceramic “village scenes” known. Mounted on a circular slab of clay is a tiny thatched roof house model of typical proportion and six oversized (in relation to the house) seated human figures. In the center is a multi-pronged cactus effigy and some stacked foodstuffs.