West Mexico's Best Dog
@TheColimaDog
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Celebrating the finest of ceramic canines from West Mexico (and beyond!) 🐾🦴 All things Pre-Columbian Dogs from @poethebadger 🐊
Joined May 2023
🐾YOU WANT DOGS? WE GOT 'EM!🐾 WELCOME to Twitter's #1 (and only) page dedicated to Pre-Columbian Ceramic Dogs! Our goal: to supply you with only the finest, most charming of dog artworks (hint: all of them) Maybe you'll even LEARN something?! Threads🧵 linked below:
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Back from my mini hiatus (due to raising a hairless dog) to announce I saw two ICONS of ‘shaped like a friend’ artworks in Kansas City 🌟 More pics later once I come down from this high
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El patrimonio arqueológico de México es testimonio vivo de la grandeza de las civilizaciones que nos antecedieron. En la subasta “Auction 105 Africa, Asia, Oceania, Pre-Columbian Art Antiquities”, organizada por @ZemanekMuenster y programada para el 15 de noviembre de 2025 en
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This dog is was up for auction last year on Sotheby’s from a collector in Brussels. Definitely a looker with those tight wrinkles, bent ears, and big muzzle… Not sure where he ended up, but he would be a fun one to authenticate given such a wild deviance from style
Colima Seated Dog. Culture: Colima, West Mexico (Shaft‑Tomb tradition), Protoclassic, c. 100 BC–AD 250. Medium: burnished ceramic with red‑brown slip; hollow effigy vessel with a small spout on the crown.
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The haters will say otherwise, but this is peak male performance
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It turns out wrinkles never went out of fashion 💅 A legacy of hairless dogs from Veracruz, Colima, the Chimú, and one particularly fashionable modern descendant
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Oh the cackling I have done since seeing this TikTok 😂
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It’s Mexican Independence Day! Here’s some guys who just happen to be standing in the tricolor order of the Mexican flag 🇲🇽
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Preliminary observations: -This dog runs HOT 24/7, I will never need a heated blanket again -Maintaining her skin is gonna be an adventure bc there doesn’t seem to be a one solution fits all according to other owners -This is perhaps the Velcro dog to end all Velcro dogs
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Studying hairless dogs past and present isn’t an easy job, so I’ve decided to add a co-researcher to the team! Introducing Chelsea the toy Xoloitzcuintli! 💙My new best friend and next step in the adventure of learning all I can about these cherished dogs 🐾
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Posting auction listing for reference. Looks like there is also a 3D scan available for purchase- where the hell did this monster come from and where is he now??? https://t.co/V6ApN33Jah
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Terracotta with reddish-brown slip length 9 1/4in (24cm) Provenance Veracruzana, New York Philip Pearlstein, New York, acquired from the above in June 1972 Joseph Gerena, New York Private Collection,...
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what in the world
Colima spider-shaped vessel, Late Pre-Classic period, ca. 300 BC–300 AD, crafted from terracotta with a reddish-brown slip. Previously part of private collections in New York and Florida. Photo Credit: Bonhams.
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These two pups came home with me to join the collection! Dog 1 is a stylistically modern, but the pose mimics one at MNA Dog 2 is stylistically Pre-C (look at his spots!!), but a modern pose with that tail and tongue 😛
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Sculpture depicting a seated man wearing a full head mask representing a prairie wolf, accompanied by two dogs, dated 400–800 AD, originating from Veracruz, Mexico. Currently housed in the collection of Museum aan de Stroom (MAS), Antwerp, Belgium.
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COLIMA DOGS LOCATED on my last trip to Phoenix!! These modern replicas can be found at Mexican Art Imports, a local business that works closely with artisans in Mexico. Owner told me these dogs were all made by a family in Guadalajara
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Effigy vessel representing a land crab, from the Colima culture of Western Mexico, Classical period, 100 BC–250 AD, crafted from ceramic with a brick-red slip and black oxides. Collection & Photo Credit: Binoche and Giquello, Paris.
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