Dignitary head; serene face with half-closed eyes highlighted with black highlights, straight nose, open mouth holding an incomplete circular element. The monumental headdress features a stylized snake head on each side, wide tubular scrolls and openwork earflaps. Beige terracotta with cream slip, traces of black paint. H. approx. 18 × W. 14 × D. 12 cm. Remojadas culture (classical Vera Cruz), 450-650 A.D. Mexico, Vera Cruz state. Condition: partially flawed headdress, cracks and traces of burial. Provenance: Henri André Jean FAVRE Collection (1937-2025) (acquired before 1970, visible on a family photo from the 1960s). Sociologist, researcher and teacher, Henri Favre focused his academic work on the peasant Indian uprisings that punctuated the colonial and republican history of Latin America. He began his research at the Instituto Nacional Indigenista in Mexico, then boarded at the Institut Français d'Etudes Andines, before joining the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in 1966. For almost twenty years at the Institut des Hautes Etudes de l'Amérique Latine, he led a post-graduate seminar on the ethnosociology of peasant Indians in Mesoamerica and the Andes. Henri Favre was Director of Research Emeritus at the CNRS. He is the author of numerous works on the Incas, the Mayas, Peru, Mexico, the indigenous movement in Latin America...