Figure

seated ball player; polychrome figure seated with legs crossed, left hand resting on left knee, and ball held in front of breast in right hand; the figure wears a modelled loin cloth, a band at the neck, flat twisted turban, and large ear plugs with pendant ends; the tattooing of face and body represented by geometric designs in polychrome; the face wears the comic expression and tentative smile often found in the figures of Nayarit, and the arms and legs are characteristically stunted