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Clay figure

Colour: 10 YR 7/3, light brown. Production technique: Moulded model Function: Pipe Type: Tripod B Pose: Standing, short arms slightly bent against the body, hands over the hip belt. Compact, fat man with short legs, knees bent. Clothing: Headdress, "berry"-like (see figure 156, subgroup B 3, figure 41, subgroup E 1 and figure 151, subgroup E 3). Upper body naked. Waist belt with apron in the centre. Jewellery: ear pegs. Chest pendant, consisting of a slightly oval flat stone/pearl, to which a small pearl is attached on the left, right and bottom. There are no remains of a necklace Remarks: Headdress slightly damaged on the right. Heavily weathered. (Sambale 2003)

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Maya
Object type
Clay figure
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 9 x 4,8 x 4,3 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
IV Ca 4886

Provenance and sources

when
Late Classical
where
Mexico
Yucatán [Region]
who
Maya

who
Florentino Jimeno - Collectors

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