Wonderful Pre-Columbian Nayarit Chinesco "Type C" Female Figure, 200 B.C-300 A.D barnacles Based on one similar that

Based on one similar that I have found

or use as paperweights

with one nick to the surface of the face on one one side a few spatterings of white paint

probably around Lancaster county

Makah and Nootka Northwest Coast Native American baskets (Vancouver Island/northern Washington) are my very favorites--typically small and very finely woven of bear grass with cedar bark rims and plaited bases

Wonderful Pre-Columbian Nayarit Chinesco "Type C" Female Figure, 200 B.C-300 A.D barnacles Based on one similar thatOn a week filled with a lot of wonderful, very singular faces and postures, this may be my favorite of all traveling across centuries to stare right into my soul! This clay figure is pre Columbian, I am quite sure from the Nayarit culture that developed in Western Mexico during the "proto classic" period, and which I am also quite sure is of the type described commonly as "Chinesco" (the term was inspired by the unintended similarity of the faces on