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

Provenance and sources

when
Late Classical
where
Mexico
Yucatán [Region]
who
Maya

who
Florentino Jimeno - Collectors

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