Standing Female with Basket
Unknown Artist
600–1000
Medium
ceramic, slip
Dimensions
19.8 × 21.4 × 8.4 cm
Classification
Ceramic
Department
Art of the Americas
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
General Acquisition Fund
Accession Number
2004.67
About this artwork
This figure's delicate face features rows of raised dots on the cheeks and the edges of the ears, perhaps representing ornamental scarification; the teeth are decoratively filed into a T or tau shape that may have had symbolic import. On her shoulder she carries a basket or bowl filled with a yet-to-be-identified bundle, perhaps marshy bulrushes. The headdress ties have been lost from one side of the head.