Donna con elaborata acconciatura, poncho e collana

The photograph depicts a woman dressed in traditional female attire of Zapotec culture, characterized by wide garments and capes, cloaks and ponchos, and an elaborate hairstyle that constrained the hair into tied and twisted braids arranged in the manner of a turban or mazzocchio. The photograph forms part of the iconographic apparatus of the volume Museo Nazionale di Antropologia di Città del Messico (1979, p. 38), published by Mondadori and included in the series Musei del Mondo. The texts of the volume were written by Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti and Licia Collobi. The sculpture is reproduced in the catalogue with the following caption (p. 86): Woman with elaborate hairstyle, poncho, and necklace. AD 600–1000. Terracotta; height 34 cm. Zapotec culture. Catalogue no. 6–55. Fondazione Centro Studi sull’Arte Licia e Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti, Lucca, Phototheque, Oriental and Extra-European Art section, folder 235/T, file “Latin America_Pre-Columbian Mexico”.