Silver Dhipak Statue Tamuín Adolescent

70.00 x 24.00 cm; 12.00 kg. 27.56 x 9.45in; 26.46 lb. *Prices are in USD. *Delivery time from 7 to 20 days

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Huasteco or Adolescent of Tamuín
Found in the Tamohi archaeological zone, Tamuín municipality (San Luis Potosí), in the Huasteca Potosina. Sculpted in limestone after AD 1000. C. It is considered the most beautiful and important sculpture of round bundle -which can be seen from all angles- of all those found belonging to the Huasteca culture.

The perfectly preserved sculpture is 1.45 cm high, 42 cm wide and 20 cm thick. It depicts a nude young man with refined body designs on his trunk and limbs. On the back is another figure tied by a band. Sculpture is an extraordinary work of art that stands out for its elegance and beauty.

It is supposed to represent Dhipak, the God of Corn. Its head shows a cranial deformation, the teeth of the upper jaw are filed and its ears pierced. On his face we can see the remains of what was a perforated nasal septum, since the nose is broken.

His body is tattooed over the entire front of the right leg, including the mid-bust to the flexed arm. The back of this leg is also tattooed to the level where the small character that carries on his back is. The two shoulders and the two forearms are equally tattooed, as are the two wrists. The back of the neck and its side faces also carry tattoos, as well as the entire front of the head up to the ears.

The two most represented motifs are the cob and chalchíhuitl (a precious stone with green reflections such as deep water, a symbol of fertility, of the water essential for the cultivation of corn); associated with this on the leg appears the water monster. He carries a small character who remembers one of the Huastecan myths related to the God of Corn: he tells how the young Corn God went in search of his dead father at the hands of the gods of thunder to resuscitate him, carries him on his back to take him to sedentary life and teach him the cultivation of corn; but, attracted by the noises of the wild nature, her father returns to her turned into a deer.

The sculpture is exposed in the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City.