Figure Vessel; 3rd-1st century B.C.; Mexico; Mesoamerica; Michoacan; Chupicuaro; Ceramic; H. 5 3/8 in. (13.7 cm); Ceramics-Containers; The bold geometric patterns in red; black; and white are characteristic of works in Chupicuaro style. Known from a region in the western state of Guanajuato that was flooded when a large dam was built in the late 1940s; Chupicuaro ceramic figures merge human and vessel forms in a manner well illustrated here