figur, hund, skulptur, sculpture, figure, Figurilla zoomórfica

Ur generalkatalogen: 23 cm lång, 19 cm hög klassisk Colima-hund av rött lergods (polerad röd dekor). Hunden med snedavskuren öppen svans, står i en attityd av vaksamhet eller lystring och biter på något han har i munnen, tydligen ett ben. Jämför till exempel för svansen med figurer avbildade i Norman P. Wright "El enigma del xoloitzcuintli" (México 1960), texten sidan 25 följande. Enligt Miguel Covarrubias: "Indian Art of Mexico and Central America" (1957) sidan 92 är det fråga om de hårlösa hundarna techichi eller tepescuintli, som man gödde och åt. Covarrubias säger på sidan 92: "The techichi look like inflated dachshunds with round heads and bulging eyes, upright large ears, and short bowlegs. The naked skin, gray and wrinkled, looks like stone, whence their name (tetl: stone, chichi: dog), and is always hot. Skeletons of such dogs have been found as offerings for the dead at Tlatilco in the Valley of Mexico, and it is a curious fact that an edible dog of the same species and identical appearance occurs in China. In the sixteenth century Fray Bernardino Sahagún described these dogs as tlalchichi, "dog of the country", "totally without hair, from the villages of Teotlixco and Ixtlán, short and round, delicious to eat". (Sahagún, Lib II, 6). The clay dogs, made obviously as funerary offerings, are modeled with extraordinary realism; they are shown standing, seated on their hind legs, curled asleep, rolling on their backs, with bones in their mouth, barking, and so forth."---

Namn på originalspråk: figurilla zoomórfica
Registrerad av Teobaldo Ramirez 2009-07-27