Litxoo statue, being five-headed

3D Model

This statuette represents a five-headed supernatural being wearing a female loincloth in liber and the body painting motif called koe koe, representing a falconid. These statuettes illustrate the evolution of this karajá figurative art between an ‘ancient phase’ and a ‘modern phase’ that took place from the mid-20th century onwards. The figurative evolution is due to the development of commercialization, the need to conform to the aesthetic canons of the clientele while at the same time freeing the creativity of the women ceramists who established their own style individually or between villages.

Statuette of Iny-Karajá culture made of clay, liber, vegetable dye of roucou (bixa orellana), acrylic painting by the artist Mahuaderu Karajà (Brazil, Tocantins State, Hawalo village) in 2010. Object MHNT.ETH.2010.24.9 from the collections of the Museum of Natural History of Toulouse with dimensions 22.2x12.7x8cm, collected in the field in 2010.