Female Figure with Perforated Headdress

Female Figure with Perforated Headdress

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This striking ceramic sculpture from the Calima culture (500–1600) portrays a stylized female figure crowned with a broad, perforated headdress. Likely linked to fertility or ritual status, the exaggerated features and pierced adornment suggest ceremonial significance and a complex symbolic role in pre-Hispanic Valle del Cauca society.