Table of Contents: “…Pickering -- Practical uses of statistical analysis for interpretations of cultural aspects of status and gender in the figures of the Ixtlán del Río style / Jennifer Pirtle -- Pathological and intentional alterations of the skin on west Mexican ceramic figures / Frédérique Servain-Riviale -- Keeping the souls contained : instantiation and the artist's hand in ceramic figures by the "Mexpan sculptor" of southern Nayarit / Rebecca R. …”