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Kneeling ball player

Colour: 5 R 8/3, reddish white. Blue paint residue on the animal's head, the disc on the left of the person's head and in the leg area. Production technique: Moulded model Function: Pipe Type: D Pose: Seated. Legs are crossed so that he is half sitting and half kneeling. The left hand on the left leg. The right hand seems to be stuck in the animal's head, which is wedged between the floor, the right leg and the hip belt. Clothing: upper body naked. Wide, thick waist belt with loop-shaped apron in the centre and side aprons with dotted decoration. Coffee bean-like decoration on the inside. Jewellery: comb-like hair or headdress, from the crown of the head to the nape of the neck on the right. On the left half of the head a round disc with a feather-like appendage hanging from it. Earrings. Necklace with 2 small round beads and an elongated one in the centre. Bracelets, two rows. Remarks: The same hip belt as figure 53 (Sambale 2003).

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Maya
Object type
Clay figure
Dimensions
Height: 13 cm
Depth: 5 cm
Width: 9 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
IV Ca 4813

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Late Classical
    where
    Mexico
    Yucatán
    who
    Maya
  • Collecting
    who
    Florentino Jimeno - Collectors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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