Featured A Bunch Of Little Mexico Pottery Animals What Are We Called

I'e tried looking up just as pottery Mexico clay figurines but not finding anything. Surely there is a name for these little guys to help narrow down my searches?

 

Mariachi band?

 

And friends Though I guess they should have hats.....and pants...

 

Lol and friends

 

You'd think me being from New Mexico I'd know what they'e called but I have no clue!

 

Wow, that's quite a crowd!

Here is the closest thing to yours that I found online:


Seller is offering 3 of them and describes them as:

Vintage Mexican Natural Clay Animal Figurines - Animal Band
Pig with flute 3” x 2 1/2”
Elephant with drum 2 3/4” x 2 1/2”
Mouse with saxophone 3” x 2 1/2

Seller also claims that they are 50+ years old. (I have no clue about that...)

from:
https://www.varagesale.com/champaig...can-natural-clay-animal-figurines-animal-band

 

Age I don't know about either, but thats them I think I even have a few of those exact ones and I got my whole bag for 6$

 

Looks like the key words here was "folk art" using that I was able to see lots of examples some dating very old. Too bad mine arent as old as this
guy.
http://collections.peabody.yale.edu/search/Record/YPM-ANT-257813

 

Animalitos? That's what similar Native American clay animal figures are called in New Mexico.

Is it possible any of these are whistles? Can't tell seeing only the front view, but some are in the shape of traditional Mexican folk art whistles, although they are usually painted.

 

Jake, if you could sell them individually for even $10/each, you'd make a very nice profit! (If you do that, don't try to sell them all at once & flood the market!)

 

Are the 3 painted ones signed? They look like different work & remind me of some pieces I have by Margaret Gutierrez. Not quite her style, but maybe also Native American? She's from the Santa Clara Pueblo.

 

They aren't but yes a different style for sure and obviously older than the others

 

A few of these are hallow with a large opening in the back I figured it was there for firing purposes, if you want to see i can post a pic, but it' the only hole and bot all of them have that

 

I was thinking $15 obo and just a few different ones at a time

 

Hoard?

 

Here a a view of the backs and the holes don' have any clue why they don' all have them and then a bottom shot of the painted ones

 

They look like these little guys, I think, from Atzompa Mexico.

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https://www.ebay.com/ulk/itm/112318175388

 

Maybe the ones with holes are sort of like finger puppets & you can make them dance?

 

Thanks for posting the photos of the back...so not whistles. I'd agree, they are just souvenir pottery figurines. The unpainted ones are from Atzompa, as say_it_slowly pointed out. Glazed ones are illustrated in Ceramica, by Amanda Thompson.

The three painted ones are from Chiapas.

 

Oh MY!