There is very little written history to tell us of the many indigenous tribes who once occupied what are now the states of Colima, Jalisco, Nayarit and parts of Michoacan and Guerrero, and archaeological investigations have been relatively superficial. There is enough evidence, however, to show that these people differed significantly from those occupying the east coast and the central highlands.

     One of the most startling of those differences lies in the area of ceramic arts. In most of Central America ceramic figurines depicted gods, priests and rulers and they are usually engaged in some solemn religious rite. Here, ceramics depict ordinary people going about their daily lives and are far more informative in that they show us where they lived, how they dressed and what they did for entertainment.

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