These two figurines represent an unusual scene in the art of Tlatilco: a man carrying a smaller person using a head strap. The gender of the bearer can be inferred by the absence of breasts and use of the maxtlatl (loincloth) but also by the manner of bearing. In other cases where it is recognized that the figure is clearly a woman with her child, either she holds it on her hip or else in her lap strapped into a crib. The fact that the bearer is a man leads us to ask what the nature of the small person is: more than a small child, it could be a sacred effigy and the bearer could be a person of heirarchical importance in a scene similar to those known in later works, such as in the "Tira de la Peregrinación" (Boturini codex).
