Nayarit Seated Figure with Satchel, Protoclassic, circa 100 BC - AD 250

John Huston, St Clerans, Craughwell, County Galway, and California, acquired during the 1940s - 1970s
Andy Williams, California, acquired from the above on June 25, 1985
Andy and Deborah Williams, California

This figure represents one of the gentle and refined styles of Nayarit, created with delicate facial features and slender physiognomy. Here the male is poised with both hands framing what might have been a perishable gourd vessel. His face shows the characteristic recessed eyes and his mouth is puckered by the extended lips; his head is wrapped in slender bands. He carries a large satchel across his right side that retains the fine decoration of repeated yellow stepped motifs. 

See Michael Kan, Clement Meighan, H. B. Nicholson, eds., Sculpture of Ancient West Mexico: Nayarit, Jalisco, Colima, The Proctor Stafford Collection, Los Angeles, 1970, p. 80, fig. 15, for the general type.