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Clay figure

Colour: 7.5 YR 6/3, light brown. 7.5 YR 7/8, reddish yellow (clay). Production technique: Press mould Function: Pipe Type: Tripod B Pose: Standing. Arms at the sides of the body. The left hand appears to be holding an object. Clothing: Diagonal shawl, decorated with checked patterns and fringes. Skirt, one hem decorated with triangles and dots at the top and one hem decorated only with triangles. Jewellery: ear studs. Pearl bracelets, double row. Remarks: U-shaped coiffure with centre parting and vertical and horizontal hair. Roughly worked hands and feet. Hands barely recognisable. Left foot damaged. Broken horizontally in the centre and glued. (Sambale 2003)

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Maya
Object type
Clay figure
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 15 x 6,3 x 4,8 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
IV Ca 4846

Provenance and sources

when
Late Classical
where
Mexico
Yucatán [Region]
who
Maya

who
Florentino Jimeno - Collectors

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