Description
Female figure; Nayarit Culture, 100 BC - 250 AD. Terracotta. Measurements: 11 x 8 x 2.5 cm. The Nayarit culture developed on the west coast of Mexico between 500 B.C. and 500 A.D. approximately, in an area of large wetlands and dense jungle. It maintained close relations with the neighboring peoples of Jalisco and Colima, with whom they shared many cultural characteristics. However, to this day we do not have much information about this culture, since few archaeological remains have been found, and those that are preserved come almost exclusively from private collections. The Nayarit is therefore one of the great unknown Mesoamerican cultures. It was a farming people whose society was articulated around the shaman, the main head of a religion in which the cult of the dead played a major role.
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Female figure; Nayarit Culture, 100 BC - 250 AD. Terracotta. Measurements: 11 x 8 x 2.5 cm. The Nayarit culture developed on the west coast of Mexico between 500 B.C. and 500 A.D. approximately, in an area of large wetlands and dense jungle. It maintained close relations with the neighboring peoples of Jalisco and Colima, with whom they shared many cultural characteristics. However, to this day we do not have much information about this culture, since few archaeological remains have been found, and those that are preserved come almost exclusively from private collections. The Nayarit is therefore one of the great unknown Mesoamerican cultures. It was a farming people whose society was articulated around the shaman, the main head of a religion in which the cult of the dead played a major role.
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