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Clay figure

Colour: 10 YR 8/1, white; 10 YR 7/3, very pale brown (clay). Production technique: Moulded model Function: - Pose: Standing. Arms raised. Clothing: upper body naked. Skirt. Waist belt wide, decorated and with three vertical rings in the centre. A rectangular piece of fabric with vertical grooves peeks out from under the waist belt in the centre. This does not represent an apron. The skirt as such is clearly recognisable. Jewellery: earrings. Single-row pearl necklace with a spider-like pendant. Pearl bracelets, three rows. Remarks: Heavily weathered. Pageboy hairstyle with centre parting and vertically depicted hair. A hole in the base. (Sambale 2003)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Maya
Object type
Clay figure
Dimensions
Height: 17,5 cm
Depth: 6,5 cm
Width: 12,5 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
IV Ca 4757

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    where
    Mexico
    Yucatán
    who
    Maya
  • Collecting
    who
    Florentino Jimeno - Collectors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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