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Ball player

Colour: 10 YR 8/1, white (front); 7.5 YR 7/3, pink (tone, back). Production technique: Press mould Function: Whistle Type: D Pose: Standing. Hands on hip belt. Clothing: Naked upper body. Wide, thick waist belt with loop-shaped apron in the centre and side aprons. Decorated inside like a coffee bean, an animal head on the left side of the belt. Conical object (trumpet?) clamped in the left arm. Fluted at the bottom, stepped at the top, partially decorated with volutes. Shoes, open at the top. Jewellery: comb-like hair or headdress, from the crown of the head to the nape of the neck on the right. Earrings with banana-shaped projections. Necklace with two pearls in the centre. Bracelet on the right wrist and right upper arm. Knee pendant in the shape of a small face, with two loops at the bottom. Remarks: Object damaged at the top. (Sambale 2003)

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Maya
Object type
Clay figure
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 12,9 x 9,1 x 4,8 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
IV Ca 4814

Provenance and sources

when
Late Classical
where
Mexico
Yucatán [Region]
who
Maya

who
Florentino Jimeno - Collectors

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