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Dwarf

Colour: 10 YR 5.5/3, brown/ pale brown. Production technique: Moulded model, applications. Function: Pipe Type: B Pose: Standing, the strongly bent arms against the body, the hands on the hip belt at the top. Compact fat man with short legs, bent at the knees. Clothing: Headdress consisting of a hat-like covering with a wide brim. On the right a rectangular projection, but not connected to the brim. Naked upper body, wide waist belt with double apron. Jewellery: banana-shaped earrings. An egg-shaped light-coloured spot is visible on the chest. Formerly with breast pendant. There are no remains of a necklace. Remarks: Headdress damaged. A hole in the base. (Sambale 2003)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Maya
Object type
Clay figure
Dimensions
Weight: 0,103 kg
Height: 9,5 cm
Depth: 4,3 cm
Width: 5,7 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
IV Ca 4891

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Late Classical
    where
    Mexico
    Yucatán
    who
    Maya
  • Collecting
    who
    Florentino Jimeno - Collectors
  • Change of legal title:
    Acquisition
    Description
    from Jimeno (Yucatan) 1881
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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