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Clay figure

Colour: 5 YR 6/8 reddish yellow. Light grey coating remnants of a former white cover. Production technique: Moulded model Function: Pipe type: D Pose: Standing. Arms under the cloak. Hands at the side. In the left hand an object (bag?). Clothing: Headdress consisting of a beehive-like hat with a tablet-like top, hollow inside. Shoulder cape open in the centre, with four elongated strips of cloth decorated at the ends. Wide waist belt with a long apron, decorated with diamonds at the end. Sandals with X-shaped knotted binding. Jewellery: nose bridge. Earrings, elongated. Around the neck a thick, rope-like cord with a thick ball of rope from which four rods (?) protrude to the left and right. Ankle bands. (Sambale 2003)

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Maya
Object type
Clay figure
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 22,8 x 8,5 x 4,5 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
IV Ca 4722

Provenance and sources

where
Mexico
Yucatán [Region]
who
Maya

who
Florentino Jimeno - Collectors

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