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Seated female

Colour: 7.5 YR 6/4, light brown. Red colour residue on the shoulder cape. Production technique: Hand modelled Function: Pipe Type: C Pose: Seated. Legs bent, the left leg in front of the right. Hands on the knees. Clothing: Shoulder cape wide, long at the front and back, cut wide at the top. Skirt/petticoat (?), hem recognisable on left foot. Jewellery: ear studs. Cheek ornament in the form of two narrow, horizontal lines with two triangles at the top and bottom. Single-row pearl necklace with large pearls. Beaded bracelets, five rows, with small round beads and either stem beads or only elongated fabric/leather strips. Comments: Tiered hairstyle with centre curl and raised head with wide, rectangular groove. (Sambale 2003)

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Cultural attribution
Maya
Object type
Clay figure
Dimensions
Height: 18 cm
Depth: 9 cm
Width: 10,5 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
IV Ca 4970

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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