D. Daniel Michel, Chicago, acquired in 1964 (inven⛎tory no. 64:112)

Ancient Art of the New Wo𒈔rld, New York, acquired from the above

Am🅷erican Private Collection, acquired from the above in 1991

PUBLISHED

Michael D. Coe, The Jaguar's Children: Pre-Classic Central Mexico, New York, 1965, fig. 150

Leo Rosshandler, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Man- Eaters and Pretty Ladies: Early Art in Central Mexico from the Gulf to the Pacific, 1500 BC-500 AD, New York and Montreal, 1971, cat no. 102

The Museum of Primitive Art, New York, The Jaguar's Children: Pre-Classic Central Mexico, February 17-May 5, 1965

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Man-Eaters and Pretty Ladies: Early Art in Central Mexico from the Gulf to the Pacific, 1500 BC-500 AD, January 15-March 8, 1971

The tall figure of a masked dancer is adorned with the ceremonial attire befitting a large village festival. Wearing a naturalistic mask made for dancing, it shows wide oval eye areas, pierced nostrils and parted lips. The figure dances with both palms straight forward; the wide set legs adorned with large shell or seed pod rattles attached to low-slung leggings. Ear flares hang at each cheek and long tresses fall to the shoulders. See Coe, The Jaguar's Children, New York, 1965, fig. 147, for a c🌃ompanion figure from the Jay C. Leff co༒llection.