The name of this item is missing in its original language. If you know the name or have any comments, please use the form to get in touch with the institution that provided the data.
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)

This content was machine-translated
Data Provider
Ethnologisches Museum
Show only fields containing data

Cataloguing data

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

Information about the record

Legal status metadata
This content was machine-translated
2.1.1 / 7.1