Since the individual's abdomen, hip and knees are covered with clothing, it is possible that it represents a ball player who competed using their hip. It is a sculpture of wide and flattened configuration that is only detailed on the front, the back is smooth; in the profile view the nose stands out as a triangular projection.
A kind of wrap was represented through elements superimposed in pastillage and horizontal incisions; some raised bands intersect and appear to under the genital area, the ends fall to the sides of the hip and reach the knees. In these the incisions that imitate bands that give several turns are repeated once again. The costumes and ornaments are painted in white on the ocher-orange engobe that covers the entire surface. The head is high because it exhibits an erect tabular deformation; the headdress consists of horizontal and transverse bands; the nose ring could be a thick ring of shell that crosses the septum; perforations are simulated in the ear lobes; earrings are circular shapes; the necklace is two lines and some variation of the tone of the surface indicates that it had a circular slope.
In the artistic style in which it is inscribed, the Tuxcacuesco-Ortices, numerous variants are noticed; this corresponds to those in which the figures have remarkably arched legs and the eyes and mouth in the form of a "coffee bean", which consists of a flat circular application with a central groove. Despite the small format and the synthesis of body volumes (especially the limbs), the artists took great care with the details.
It is among the most outstanding styles of the ceramics of the culture of the shaft tombs because of its ample presence, internal variability and period of production; so far I can only identify it in solid sculptures. Our knowledge is based on research carried out by the anthropologist Isabel Kelly in the 1940s; the denomination of the style s that of the two sites she studied. The first corresponds to the Jalisco zone of Tuxcacuesco-Zapotitlan, northwest of the Colima volcano, and the second, Los Ortices, located in the Colima valley.
Since the individual's abdomen, hip and knees are covered with clothing, it is possible that it represents a ball player who competed using their hip. It is a sculpture of wide and flattened configuration that is only detailed on the front, the back is smooth; in the profile view the nose stands out as a triangular projection.
