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Clay figure

Colour: 10 YR 6/3, light brown. Production technique: Moulded model Function: Pipe Type: Tripod A Pose: Standing. Arms raised, merging seamlessly with the body. Only slight indication of the elbows, hands indistinctly visible behind the hair falling to the side. Arms raised, hands merge with the torso. Clothing: petticoat (?). Waist belt, narrow. Jewellery: forehead pendant. Earrings. Single-row necklace of rectangular plates with pendant. Beaded bracelets, four rows. Remarks: Facial decoration in the form of small, round, subsequently applied clay plates on the forehead and on the left cheek. The top of the head raised high with a vertical groove. Right foot damaged. Weathered. (Sambale 2003)

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Maya
Object type
Clay figure
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 11,7 x 6 x 5,2 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
IV Ca 4867

Provenance and sources

when
Late Classical
where
Mexico
Yucatán [Region]
who
Maya

who
Florentino Jimeno - Collectors

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