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Clay figure

Colour: 7.5 YR 6/3.5, light brown. Production technique: Press mould Function: Pipe Type: E Pose: Standing. Arms in front of the body. In both hands holding an object with ribbon-like attachments (corncob?). Clothing: Headdress consisting of a broad headband, above which are three oval discs decorated with a horizontal groove and two vertical grooves. On the left and right above the discs two elongated, roundly kinking beads. Between them a trapezoidal attachment with vertical grooves. Rectangular attachments on the left and right, each with two horizontal grooves connected by a vertical groove. Naked upper body. Broad, thick waist belt with an apron in the centre, hanging down from the top of the belt. Jewellery: ear studs. Double-row pearl necklace. Knee bands of round beads. Remarks: Feet and headdress slightly damaged (Sambale 2003)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Maya
Object type
Clay figure
Dimensions
Height: 13,7 cm
Depth: 4 cm
Width: 4,9 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
IV Ca 4776

Provenance and sources

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

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