Home > Art > Small Chontal Standing Figure with Pecked Features
A standing green stone figure with arms crossed and small, hollow facial features.
A standing green stone figure with arms crossed and small, hollow facial features.

About the Object

The relatively small Chontal standing figure seen here was created from mottled dark green diorite stone. It has been worked with pecking to create the hollowed-out eyes, shaped nose, arms, and legs, and is likely fashioned from a celt, or stone hand axe.

 

Additional Information

There is evidence that the Mezcala-Chontal traded with the Olmec culture centered on the Bay of Campeche in the Gulf of Mexico. While this object has not been definitively dated, it was most likely created between 700 BCE and 400 BCE, and perhaps as late as 250 CE.

Spencer Throckmorton Collection, New York, NY;
Gift to The Jan T. and Marica Vilcek Collection, 1995;

Related Objects

Figure in Rotation

c. 1948 Max Weber
A standing green stone figure with arms crossed and small, hollow facial features.

Mezcala Four-Column Temple with Recumbent Figure

200 BCE–500 CE Unknown Artist
A standing green stone figure with arms crossed and small, hollow facial features.

Chinesco (Nayarit) Maternity Figure

200 BCE-200 CE Unknown Artist
A standing green stone figure with arms crossed and small, hollow facial features.

Untitled (Reclining Nude)

1913 Manierre Dawson
A standing green stone figure with arms crossed and small, hollow facial features.

Small Seated Mezcala Animal Effigy Figure (Possibly a Monkey)

600-400 BCE Unknown Artist
A standing green stone figure with arms crossed and small, hollow facial features.

Aztec (Mexica) Figure of Seated Ruler or Dignitary with Hands on Knees and Large Headdress

1200-1500 CE (Post Classic-Late Post Classic/Early Aztec-Late Aztec B Periods) Unknown Artist
A standing green stone figure with arms crossed and small, hollow facial features.

Untitled (Study for Figure)

1920 John Storrs
A standing green stone figure with arms crossed and small, hollow facial features.

Mezcala/Sultepec Mask

1800-1200 BCE Unknown Artist
A standing green stone figure with arms crossed and small, hollow facial features.

Mezcala Standing Female Figure with One Broken Leg (M-20 Type)

1800-1200 BCE Unknown Artist
A standing green stone figure with arms crossed and small, hollow facial features.

Woman with a Fan

c. 1958 (modeled in 1914) Alexander Archipenko
A standing green stone figure with arms crossed and small, hollow facial features.

You may also be interested in

2019 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise

Fabián von Hauske Valtierra

Fabián Von Hauske Valtierra receives the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Culinary Arts for combining diverse, international culinary influences into a singular voice that is ambitious, experimental, and accessible.
A standing green stone figure with arms crossed and small, hollow facial features.
2017 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise

Iman Issa

Iman Issa receives the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Fine Arts for exploring, through works of various media, difficult philosophical questions, such as the individual’s relationship to places, figures, and events that are collectively familiar, or the difference between experience and recognition.
A standing green stone figure with arms crossed and small, hollow facial features.
2017 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise

Meleko Mokgosi

Meleko Mokgosi receives the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Fine Arts for paintings that rely on intensive research, reflection, and conversation in order to address widespread misrepresentation of Africa and Africans, and to accurately portray the continent’s complex social and political realities.
A standing green stone figure with arms crossed and small, hollow facial features.