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

Provenance and sources

where
Mexico
Yucatán [Gebiet]
who
Maya

who
Florentino Jimeno - Collectors

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