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Clay figure

Colour: 10 YR 8/1, white (front); 10 YR 7/3 pale brown (back). Production technique: Press mould Function: Pipe Type: D Pose: Standing. Animal head. The hands in front of the body. An elongated object between the hands. Clothing: Short shoulder cape decorated with vertical grooves. Shirt with a hem that bulges out from under the waist belt. Narrow waist belt. Jewellery: Necklace, joined under the chin so that the two ends hang down parallel. Knee straps, each with three longitudinal oval "plates". Remarks: Deep-set eyes with pupils. Long curved canines in the upper jaw. (Sambale 2003)

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Cultural attribution
Maya
Object type
Clay figure
Dimensions
Height: 12,5 cm
Depth: 5 cm
Width: 7,5 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
IV Ca 4823

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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