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Clay figure

Colour: 7.5 YR 7/6 reddish yellow. Production technique: Moulded model Function: Pipe Type: Tripod A Pose: Standing, arms bent and raised. Clothing: Headband, with the head of a bird in the centre. Upper body naked. Skirt decorated with a thick fringed hem at the top and a narrow one at the bottom. A horizontal field decorated with triangles and dots above the lower hem. Jewellery: double earrings. Choker with face pendant. The upper lip of the depicted face tapers to a point and protrudes over the lower lip. Beaded bracelets, four rows. Remarks: Figure in very good condition. U-shaped hairstyle with vertical depiction of the hair. (Sambale 2003)

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Cultural attribution
Maya
Object type
Clay figure
Dimensions
Height: 14,3 cm
Depth: 3,5 cm
Width: 6,5 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
IV Ca 4843

Provenance and sources

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

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