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Clay figure

Colour: 8.75 YR 6.5/4, pink / light yellow-brown. White colour residue on neck, left ear and back. Production technique: Press mould, applications. Function: Pipe type: B Pose: Standing, short arms bent against the body, hands on the hip belt. Stout man with short legs. The right leg is slightly forward. Clothing: Headdress consisting of a hood-like, semicircular attachment. Formerly there was also something behind the head, but this has broken off. Upper body naked. Wide waist belt, with a long apron in the centre. Jewellery: ear discs. Broad oval breast pendant. No remains of a necklace are recognisable. Remarks: The headdress, the ear jewellery and the breast pendant are appliqués. Very good condition. (Sambale 2003)

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Maya
Object type
Clay figure
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 8,8 x 4,5 x 4,5 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
IV Ca 4901

Provenance and sources

where
Mexico
Yucatán [Region]
who
Maya

who
Florentino Jimeno - Collectors

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