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Clay figure

Colour: 7.5 YR 5/4, brown (clay). Red (10 R 5/8) colour residue on the entire body, face and limbs. Production technique: Hand modelled Function: - Type: - Pose: Seated. Legs crossed, arms folded in front of the chest. The right hand under the left upper arm. Clothing: Headdress consisting of seven oval discs that overlap slightly and extend from one ear to the other. On the head, triangular clay leaves spread out in a star shape. Beneath these leaves, the hair swells in thick strands over halfway down the back. Under the headdress, thin, elongated strands in front with a round thickening at the end, stepped to one side (hair, fringes of a headband?). Upper body naked. Hip scarf. Jewellery: nose bridge. Facial decoration in the form of a skeletonised lower jaw. Former necklace with two round pendants. Remarks: Figure badly damaged. Ear jewellery, left arm from the elbow and right leg from the thigh missing. Hip scarf and hair on the back also damaged. (Sambale 2003)

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Maya
Object type
Clay figure
Dimensions
Höhe: 17,6 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
IV Ca 4954

Provenance and sources

where
Mexico
Yucatán [Region]
who
Maya

who
Florentino Jimeno - Collectors

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