跪姿男性身材 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	跪姿男性身材
品名（英）	Kneeling Male Figure
入馆年号	1979年，1979.206.476
策展部门	迈克尔·洛克菲勒之翼（The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing）
创作者
创作年份	公元 1200 - 公元 1400
创作地区	美国, 田纳西州（United States, Tennessee）
分类	石雕（Stone-Sculpture）
尺寸	高 26 1/2 x 宽 14 x 深 10 3/4 英寸 (67.3 x 35.6 x 27.3 厘米) Weight: 93 磅.
介绍（中）	1895年，在田纳西州汉弗莱斯县的鸭子河畔发现了这尊祖先雕像，是一对男女中的一对。在前殖民时代后期，这些人物在东南部更复杂的密西西比社会中发挥了重要作用，当时他们是祖先崇拜的焦点。这些人物，主要但不完全是男性，与重要祖先的骨头一起被安置在神社中并受到崇敬。如今，这些人物主要以耐用的石头为原型，尽管也有木制的例子。如当前示例所示，它们被描绘成坐着的，并且制作得非常紧凑，甚至很重。突出的下巴和雕刻精美的眉脊与躯干、手臂和腿部的角度和平面非常吻合。单膝抬高将他区分为属于一组特殊的人物，在这组人物中，通常双膝都放在地上，双脚交叉。画好的右腿给这个人物一个活跃的姿势和一个更逼真的方面。当十九世纪末被发现时，这个人物被命名为亚当和他的女对手夏娃。伊芙现在的位置未知。
介绍（英）	This ancestral figure was one of a male-female pair when discovered in 1895 on the banks of the Duck River in Humphreys County, Tennessee. Such figures played important roles among the more complex Mississippian societies of the Southeast during later precolonial times, when they were the focus of ancestor veneration. The figures, primarily but not exclusively male, were placed and venerated in shrine houses together with the bones of significant ancestors. The figures are known today primarily in durable stone, although examples in wood exist. They are depicted seated and are very compactly—indeed weightily—made, as illustrated by the current example. The jutting chin and well-carved eyebrow ridge accord well with the angles and plains of torso, arms, and legs. The one raised knee distinguishes him as belonging to a special group of figures, in which customarily both knees are on the ground with feet tucked under or crossed. The drawn-up right leg gives the figure an active pose and a more lifelike aspect. When discovered at the end of the nineteenth century, this figure was named Adam and his female counterpart Eve. Eve's present location is unknown.