Figure pottery

This figure ceramic represents an adult, you probably carrying flowers and medicinal plants.

It is especially interesting because in it we can see clearly the escarificaciónes in the face. The scarification was an aesthetic practice, fairly common among the maya, and was common among adult men and women. The scarification, most common were made on the face, often in the cheeks and the chin, although it is also usual that consists in slough, ranging between the eyebrows to the tip of the nose.
Bishop Pedro Sanchez de Aguilar documented this practice in a report from 1613 pointing out that in order to demonstrate its importance to the maya lords are “cut themselves after their manner,” the body with lancets stone, surely, obsidian or flint, until it bleed and in the wounds placed earth black or charcoal. When the wounds were healed, the scars were designs in the form of snakes, and eagles.

The figure of ceramics, as a large part of the pieces of the museum of Saint Louis, was captured and sold to private collectors, so that you can not know its context or its origin.