id: 155441 accession number: 1990.169 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1990.169 updated: 2023-03-14 12:01:41.735000 Standing Female Figure, c. 1000–1500. Mexico, Gulf Coast, Huastec. Stone; overall: 70 x 33 x 22.5 cm (27 9/16 x 13 x 8 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James C. Gruener 1990.169 title: Standing Female Figure title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1000–1500 creation date earliest: 1000 creation date latest: 1500 current location: creditline: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James C. Gruener copyright: --- culture: Mexico, Gulf Coast, Huastec technique: stone department: Art of the Americas collection: AA - Mesoamerica type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 70 x 33 x 22.5 cm (27 9/16 x 13 x 8 7/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Gruener Collection of Pre-Columbian Art opening date: 1992-02-04T05:00:00 The Gruener Collection of Pre-Columbian Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 4-November 29, 1992). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE John A. Stokes, Upper Nyack, NY, gift to James C. and Florence C. Gruener date: ?-1969 footnotes: citations: James C. [1903-1990] and Florence C. [1908-1982] Gruener, Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: 1969-1990 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art date: 1990 footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: The position of the figure’s hands on her belly may suggest motherhood. digital description: The female depicted in this sculpture wears a serpent-maw headdress—the female’s head appears within the jaws of the serpent, whose eyes can be seen on the “fan” of stone around the head. Many elite Mesoamerican people of the period are shown wearing similar headdresses, suggesting that such sculptures represent noble women. In the past, they have been interpreted as supernatural beings. wall description: Large-scale stone figural sculputres are rare in Mesoamerican art. This Huactec example probably represents a goddess or her human impersonator. The Aztecs of central Mexico incorporated many Huaxtec deities into their own pantheon; Aztec stone sculpture also took inspiration from the Huaxtec tradition. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Young-Sánchez, Margaret. "The Gruener Collection of Pre-Columbian Art." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 79, no. 7 (1992): 234-75. page number: Referenced: cat. no. 99, p. 273, Reproduced: fig. 99, p. 261 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25161367. --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1990.169/1990.169_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1990.169/1990.169_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1990.169/1990.169_full.tif