prev - home - index - next Remojadas style figurines are characterized by relaxed stances and smiling faces. This particular figurine must have depicted a high-status female, since she wears a feathered headdress ornamented with a bird, huge conic earflares, a stone necklace and what probably was a formal quezquémitl or overblouse. Female figurine sitting on a coffer-like object Central Veracruz Middle to Late Classic (500-900 A.D.) Remojadas, State of Veracruz Clay with traces of white stucco 25 x 13 cm. National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico. Photo © Jorge Pérez de Lara |
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