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| Keywords: Colima - Figure with Large Bowl - Walters 20092020.jpg The feast was a critical part of sociopolitics throughout ancient Mesoamerica It was a forum for cementing alliances forging new relationships and strengthening obligations of reciprocity; it also served as a mechanism for redistributing goods which enhanced the host's prestige and stimulated production and use This seated figure is not only an excellent technical achievement but also a compelling artwork whose narrative underscores the importance of the feast to West Mexican social politics This figure may be identified as an attendant at a feast cradling a basket The container would have held such foods as savory tamales atole maize cereal or any number of other foods that during ancient Colonial and modern times constituted appropriate formal banquet fare 200 BC-AD 300 earthenware cm 18 22 6 26 6 accession number 2009 20 20 80175 Stendahl Galleries Los Angeles date and mode of acquisition unknown John G Bourne 1970s by purchase Walters Art Museum Gift of John Bourne 2009 place of origin Colima Mexico Walters Art Museum license Objects from Colima in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
