A Possible Ehecatl Figure from West Mexico

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dc.contributor.advisorKoontz, Rex
dc.contributor.committeeMemberNevitt, H. Rodney, Jr.
dc.contributor.committeeMemberVan Tuerenhout, Dirk
dc.creatorKilgore, Christopher H.
dc.creator.orcid0000-0003-0419-7392
dc.date.accessioned2018-06-22T21:54:58Z
dc.date.available2018-06-22T21:54:58Z
dc.date.createdMay 2018
dc.date.issued2018-05
dc.date.submittedMay 2018
dc.date.updated2018-06-22T21:54:58Z
dc.description.abstractThis thesis focuses on a particularly sophisticated example of Pre-Columbian West Mexican ceramic sculpture from the Museum of Fine Arts Houston: a dancing figure with a complex zoomorphic headdress. Late Pre-Classic Colima, the figure's culture of origin, is poorly understood due to its severely compromised archaeological record. Based on a comprehensive iconographic analysis, the MFAH figure is tentatively identified as the wind deity Ehecatl, a god from the broadly shared Mesoamerican deity system that is previously unconfirmed in Preclassic Colima. While West Mexican sculpture was once considered merely illustrative of everyday activities, this thesis concludes that the MFAH Colima Dancer and similar figures evince highly evolved communal religious practices. This interpretation also supports the existence of generally unacknowledged trade between ancient West Mexico and the rest of Mesoamerica, both in tangible assets and in ideological/religious concepts. This new perspective will hopefully catalyze further reappraisal of underappreciated West Mexican ceramic materials.
dc.description.departmentArt, School of
dc.format.digitalOriginborn digital
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10657/3152
dc.language.isoeng
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dc.subjectWest Mexico
dc.subjectMesoamerica
dc.subjectColima
dc.subjectJalisco
dc.subjectNayarit
dc.subjectComala
dc.subjectIconography
dc.subjectPre-Columbian art
dc.subjectOlmec art
dc.subjectOlmecs
dc.subjectMaya art
dc.subjectAztec art
dc.subjectMixtec art
dc.subjectEhecatl
dc.subjectQuetzalcoatl
dc.subjectHuitzilopochtli
dc.subjectTlaloc
dc.subjectTecuhtli
dc.subjectSpondylus
dc.subjectCeiba pentandra
dc.subjectTheobroma bicolor
dc.subjectAtlatl
dc.subjectCeramic
dc.subjectDancer
dc.subjectShaft tomb
dc.subjectGuachimontón
dc.subjectHuitzilapa
dc.subjectSahagún
dc.subjectNicholson, H. B.
dc.subjectVon Winning, Hasso
dc.subjectDisjunction
dc.titleA Possible Ehecatl Figure from West Mexico
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dc.type.genreThesis
thesis.degree.collegeKathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts
thesis.degree.departmentArt, School of
thesis.degree.disciplineArt History
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Houston
thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Arts

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