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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 (V-shaped decoration around the neck). Production technique: Hand modelled, pressed model. Function: Rattle Pose: Standing. Arms bent, hands resting on the body. Clothing: Headdress, runs around the entire head. A bead at the top centre, with a round, flat disc to the left and right. Curved bands (feathers?) with tied loops at the sides. Clothing is not recognisable. Jewellery: ear stakes Remarks: Head modelled, flat at the back. Large, pointed nose and double-rimmed eyes. U-shaped indentation leading from the upper lip to the chin. No depictions of legs and feet. A 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: 13,5 x 10 x 4 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
IV Ca 4793

Provenance and sources

where
Mexico
Yucatán [Gebiet]
who
Maya

who
Florentino Jimeno - Collectors

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