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Clay figure

Colour: 10 YR 7/3 very pale brown. 10 YR 4/2 dark, grey-brown colour remnants. Additionally, barely visible, on the lower right half of the body, in dark red to grey-brown colour, two horizontal lines with intersecting lines between them. Production technique: Hand-modelled, pressed model. Function: - Type: - Pose: Standing. Head raised slightly upwards. Arms bent, hands resting on the stomach. Clothing: Headband, decorated with two rectangles containing four circles on the right and two circles on the left. No other clothing is recognisable. The former painting may have been a form of clothing. Jewellery: ear studs. Bracelets, indicated by reddish coloured grooves on the wrist. Remarks: Head modelled, flat at the back. Large, pointed nose. A notch 4 cm long and 0.8 cm wide at the back. (Sambale 2003)

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Maya
Object type
Clay figure
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 17,2 x 7,3 x 4,5 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
IV Ca 4791

Provenance and sources

where
Mexico
Yucatán [Gebiet]
who
Maya

who
Florentino Jimeno - Collectors

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