Smiling" sculpted head, jovial face with almond-shaped eyes - Lot 211

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Smiling" sculpted head, jovial face with almond-shaped eyes - Lot 211
Smiling" sculpted head, jovial face with almond-shaped eyes and wide-open mouth revealing the row of teeth. Beige terracotta, slip-coated and polished. H. 13.5 cm Remojadas culture (classical Vera Cruz), 450-650 A.D. Mexico, Vera Cruz state. Condition: fragment of statuette, nose and ears chipped off, fine burial concretions. Provenance: Henri André Jean FAVRE Collection (1937-2025) (acquired before 1966, visible on a family photo dated January 1966). Sociologist, researcher and teacher, Henri Favre focused his academic work on the peasant Indian uprisings that punctuated the colonial and republican history of Latin America. He began his research at the Instituto Nacional Indigenista in Mexico, then boarded at the Institut Français d'Etudes Andines, before joining the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in 1966. For almost twenty years at the Institut des Hautes Etudes de l'Amérique Latine, he led a post-graduate seminar on the ethnosociology of peasant Indians in Mesoamerica and the Andes. Henri Favre was Director of Research Emeritus at the CNRS. He is the author of numerous works on the Incas, the Mayas, Peru, Mexico, the indigenous movement in Latin America...
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