Colima Warrior Original Witco Globe

Original Witco Globe

Witco made many ship wall paintings/carvings

for women in Inca society had a duty of providing the government storehouse one piece of clothing every year

Gouache on paper

liable on verso

Colima Warrior Original Witco GlobeThis large, hollow figure comes from the present day state of Jalisco, located on the Pacific coast of West Mexico. Between 200 B. C. and A. D. 500, the inhabitants of Jalisco and the nearby states of Nayarit and Colima constructed elaborate underground shaft and chamber tombs, which are unique in Mexico. Among the various burial offerings placed in these tombs were large, hollow ceramic figures and vessels, and such smaller objects as stone