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Clay figure

Colour: 10 YR 6/4, light yellowish brown (tone). 2.5 YR 3/6, dark red (body colour). 2.5 YR 3/1, reddish brown (pattern on the forehead, around the breasts and in the lower area). Production technique: Hand modelled, pressed model. Function: Rattle Pose: Standing, right arm resting on the side, left arm bent in front of the body. The left hand lies on the body. Clothing: It is possible that the figure is wearing a headband, as tufts of hair can be seen on the left and right above the ears and the hair falls to the left and right in the same way as in the figures with headbands (cf. figure no. 2, 5, 84). No clothing is recognisable. Jewellery: ear studs half visible. Bracelet indicated by incisions and reddish brown colour. Remarks: The figure was first completely painted with dark red paint and then decorated with reddish brown paint. Head modelled, flat at the back. Large, pointed nose and double-framed eyes. The painting and decoration may have been a form of clothing. A notch 2.4 cm long and 0.4 cm wide at the back. (Sambale 2003)

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Maya
Object type
Clay figure
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 13,1 x 7 x 4,5 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
IV Ca 4788

Provenance and sources

where
Mexico
Yucatán [Gebiet]
who
Maya

who
Florentino Jimeno - Collectors

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