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Colour: 7,5 YR 7/4, pink. Production technique: Moulded model Function: - Pose: Standing. The arms curved and raised upwards. The hands are indistinct. Clothing: Headdress, no longer clearly recognisable. Shoulder scarf, short, rounded at the front, with grooved decoration. Shirt decorated with diagonal grooves forming checks and petticoat (?) with "quilted" hem. Jewellery: ear studs. Single-row pearl necklace with double pompom pendant. Bracelets. Remarks: In worn areas, the clay takes on a yellow-orange colour (7.5 YR 7/8). One hole in the base, two holes in the back. (Sambale 2003)

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Cultural attribution
Maya
Object type
Clay figure
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 10,5 x 7 x 4 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
IV Ca 4770

Provenance and sources

where
Mexico
Yucatán [Gebiet]
who
Maya

who
Florentino Jimeno - Collectors

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CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED

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