女性身材 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	女性身材
品名（英）	Female Figure
入馆年号	1980年，1980.83.15
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	公元前 3000 - 公元前 2000
创作地区	厄瓜多尔（Ecuador）
分类	陶瓷雕塑（Ceramics-Sculpture）
尺寸	高 3 5/8 × 宽 1 × 深 1 英寸 (9.2 × 2.5 × 2.5 厘米)
介绍（中）	在公元前三千年，厄瓜多尔西南海岸的居民发展了美洲已知最早的陶瓷雕像传统。这些粘土小雕像以其风格化的表现而闻名，植根于同一地区的早期石雕像传统。虽然一些陶瓷人物相对朴素，由简单的凹槽牌匾组成，让人联想到他们的石头前辈，但其他的，如图所示，显示出更多的细节。这个雕像，当然是女性，有一个红色的滑倒身体，圆润的乳房和沿着小腹的剥离。她的双手紧握在胸前，双腿张开。正如当时许多瓦尔迪维亚小雕像的典型特征一样，这个人物的脸几乎完全被一个精致的娇躯遮住了，这个妖怪从她的背上倾泻而下。在家庭和仪式背景下发现，一些学者认为瓦尔迪维亚小雕像代表了生育率数字，尽管这种解释仍然很脆弱。
介绍（英）	In the third millennium B.C., inhabitants of Ecuador's southwest coast developed the earliest known ceramic figurine tradition in the Americas. Noted for their stylized representation, these clay statuettes are rooted in earlier stone figurine traditions from the same region. While some of the ceramic figures are relatively plain, consisting of simple grooved plaques reminiscent of their stone predecessors, others, like the one pictured here, display substantially more detail. The figurine, certainly a female, has a red slipped body with rounded breasts and strippling along her lower abdomen. Her hands are clasped beneath her chest and her legs are splayed. As is typical of many Valdivian statuettes at this time, the figure's face is almost completely obscured by an elaborate coiffure that cascades down her back. Found in domestic as well as ceremonial contexts, some scholars have suggested that Valdivian figurines represent fertility figures, although this interpretation remains tenuous.