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Clay figure

Colour: 10 YR 8/1, white (front); 2.5 YR 7/6 (7.5 R 6/ 8?), light red (clay); 2.5 Y 8/3, pale yellow paint residue, partly over the white paint. Production technique: moulded model Function: - Pose: standing. Arms close to the body, hands resting on the sides of the hips. Clothing: Headdress consisting of a crescent-shaped disc with twelve diagonal bulges in the centre, directly above the head. Shoulder scarf with long, pointed breast flap. Petticoat with sewn-on wide hem, with stepped and dotted decoration. A narrow, ribbed hem underneath. Jewellery: ear studs. Single-row pearl necklace with double pompom pendant. Choker. Plate/strap bracelets. Remarks: Pageboy hairstyle with vertical hair. Rectangular eyes. The lower incisors are visible. The base is 9.5 cm wide. Very well preserved. One hole in the base. (Sambale 2003)

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Maya
Object type
Clay figure
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 23 x 15,5 x 7,3 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
IV Ca 4842

Provenance and sources

when
Late Classical
where
Mexico
Yucatán [Region]
who
Maya

who
Florentino Jimeno - Collectors

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