This collection item does not have a name in the language of origin. If you know the name or have comments, use this form to contact the data-providing institution.

Ball player

Colour: 5 R 8/2, light pink. 5 R 5/8, red (tone). Production technique: Press mould, application. Function: Pipe type: D Pose: Standing. Arms alongside the body, hands on the waist belt. Clothing: Headband consisting of rectangular clay plates, a small insert on the left, a small clay plate has been placed over the band. Naked upper body, waist belt decorated, wide and thick with an apron in the centre. The hip belt is set off three times at the front. Below the last of these are volute and circular decorations. The narrow and short apron has ring-like pendants at the bottom. Jewellery: Earrings, volute-shaped with feather-like projections. Three forehead beads. Necklace with knotted scarf. Pearl bracelet on the right, three rows. Remarks: The headband is an appliqué. (Sambale 2003)

This content was machine-translated
Data Provider
Ethnologisches Museum Show original at data provider

Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Maya
Object type
Clay figure
Dimensions
Height: 15,5 cm
Depth: 4,6 cm
Width: 8,8 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
IV Ca 4815

Provenance and sources

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

Information about the record

Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
This content was machine-translated
Version: 2.6 / 7.5