Jeanette Favrot Peterson discusses a Maya plate depicting a woman riding a deer c. A.D. 600-900.
Jeanette Favrot Peterson, Precolumbian Flora and Fauna: Continuity of Plant and Animal Times in Mesoamerican Art (La Jolla, CA: Mingei Intl Museum of World Folk Art, 1990), 28-29
DEER WITH WOMAN ON PLATE
Maya, Petén, Guatemala
Late Classic: C. A.D. 600–900
Polychrome black and red on buff terracotta
D: 17 ¼”
Private Collection