Material : terracotta
Origin : Ecuador
Culture : La Tolita
Era : 300 BC / 300 AD

Condition : good

Dimensions : 3'' H

Price : 315 €

 

This figurine represents a feline, stand up and full face. Typical La Tolita feline’s representation with fangs and drooping tongue. We can see marks of red and black paint. Big felines, like jaguars, didn’t’ lived on Ecuador’s coasts, so this type of figurines showed a mythical world, for which symbols are still unknown.

 

Bibliography
D. Lavallé, L. G. Lumbreras, « Les Andes, de la Préhistoire aux Incas », p. 102 à 119, L’Univers des Formes, Paris, 1985.