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Dwarf

Colour: 5 YR 6/4, reddish brown. Production technique: Press mould, applications. Function: Pipe Type: E Pose: Standing, short arms along the body. Hands over the waist belt at the hips. Stout, fat man with short legs. Clothing: Upper body naked. Waist belt wide, apron in the centre. Jewellery: ear stakes. Arm/ankle bands? Presumably carvings to mark the joints. Remarks: Ear peg application. Formerly with headdress. Small indentations on the forehead suggest that the headdress ran around the entire head. Now only a thickening behind the left temple remains. The rest is broken off. The left ear with jewellery is missing. Figure damaged at the base, no longer standing on its own. The notches on the arms and legs could also be indications of joints. Figure heavily weathered. A hole in the back. (Sambale 2003)

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Maya
Object type
Clay figure
Dimensions
Höhe: 8,3 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
IV Ca 4894

Provenance and sources

when
Late Classical
where
Mexico
Yucatán [Region]
who
Maya

who
Florentino Jimeno - Collectors

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