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Dwarf

Colour: 5 YR 6/4, light reddish brown. Blue colour residues on the ear pegs and both thighs. Production technique: Press mould, applications. Function: Pipe type: B Pose: Seated. Arms bent, hands on the sides of the stomach. Compact fat man with short bent legs, soles of feet facing each other. Clothing: Headdress consisting of rectangular plates at the front and an animal head. At the back, at the height of the plates, a horizontal bar. Upper body naked. Narrow waist belt, apron in the centre. Jewellery: ear pegs. Elongated forehead ornament. Chest pendant, peanut-shaped. Remains of a necklace are not recognisable. Remarks: The entire head with decorative elements was modelled by hand and subsequently inserted into the torso. Chest pendant also application. (Sambale 2003)

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Maya
Object type
Clay figure
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 14,5 x 7 x 5,5 cm
Gewicht: 0,17 kg
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
IV Ca 4907

Provenance and sources

when
600 - 900
where
Mexico
Yucatán [Region]
who
Maya

who
Florentino Jimeno - Collectors

Description
from Jimeno (Yucatan) 1881

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