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Clay figure

Colour: 10 YR 8/1 white, front; 10 YR 7/3 pink, (back); 2.5 YR 6/8, red (clay). Production technique: Moulded model Function: - Pose: Standing. Limbless. Clothing: Headdress, consisting of a flat headdress with a kind of clasp over it. Shoulder scarf, short at the front, rounded and decorated, with two little heads with long noses or beaks and a wavy pattern. Petticoat, with sewn-on hem, decorated with a chequered and meander pattern. A narrow, ribbed hem underneath. Jewellery: ear studs. Double-row pearl necklace with double pompom pendant. Comments: Pageboy hairstyle. Eyes closed(?). Teeth visible. Two round holes at shoulder and hip height. (Sambale 2003)

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Maya
Object type
Clay figure
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 23 x 14 x 6,3 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
IV Ca 4725

Provenance and sources

where
Mexico
Yucatán [Gebiet]
who
Maya

who
Florentino Jimeno - Collectors

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