Shown here are three views of what remains of a terracotta seated human figure in an accentuated stylized form. The figure was discovered in the Painted Cave site at Gáldar, northwest Gran Canaria, in the Canary Islands archipelago of Spain, which lies about 100 kilometers west of Morocco. The cave complex was inhabited before the Castilian conquest of the Canaries in the 15th century by an indigenous people called the Guanches. The head of this figure is missing, but other examples of Guanche ceramics include figures with heads as prolongation of long necks and lacking most facial features. The arms are reduced to two stumps. The legs, crossed, lean forward making a ring. The piece is polished and painted all over in red. It was found in the sediments during an early archeological excavation of the cave complex in 1970. Among such terracotta figurines, the anthropomorphic curved feminine form predominates, providing a marked contrast to the geometric cave murals of this society. Although the function allotted to these “idols” in Gran Canaria's pre-Hispanic society cannot be determined with certainty, it has been assumed that they had a religious purpose. Their appearance and singularity suggest that they might have been related to ritual practices linked to fertility or to perpetuation of the strongly hierarchical social order. The talismanic value of the terracotta ceramics cannot be ruled out; they may have been believed to offer protection and provide shelter from evil influences. This piece is in the collections of the Museum and Archaeological Park Cueva Pintada.