This may be a female shaman. This fragment of an earthenware vessel inscribed with a possible drawing of a woman shaman wearing a bird costume was uncovered in western Japan at Shimizukaze, a site dating to the middle of the Yayoi Period, around 100 BCE.
Nineteen other earthen vessels inscribed with human figures with outstretched arms have been unearthed across Japan, but this is the first to appear to have breasts. Her eyes, nose, mouth, and one arm with five fingers are also visible on the fragment, which measures just 5 inches by 6.5 inches.
