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Colour: 5 YR 6/5, light brown, reddish yellow. Production technique: Hand-modelled Function: Pipe Type: C Pose: Sitting, legs slightly crossed, arms folded in front of the chest. Right hand on left upper arm. Clothing: Headdress consisting of a band of cloth divided into rectangular sections with a bead in the centre. Damaged at the top, perhaps formerly the same headdress as figure 106. Naked upper body. Hip scarf. Jewellery: ear discs connected by a band (?) with large rings. Two small round beads attached. Cheeks/chin guard", dotted. Necklace with two preserved large beads. Remarks: Figure damaged. Right foot and parts of the collar and beads missing. Headdress also damaged. (Sambale 2003)

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Maya
Object type
Clay figure
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 15 x 7,5 x 8 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
IV Ca 4956
Related object(s)
is related to : Objektbezug: VIII E 772, Positiv, SW, Zwei Tonfiguren aus der Sammlung Jimeno, 1881, vor 1891, Unbekannt
Objektbezug: VIII E 772, Positiv, SW, Zwei Tonfiguren aus der Sammlung Jimeno, 1881, vor 1891, Unbekannt

Provenance and sources

when
Late Classical
where
Mexico
Yucatán [Region]
who
Maya

who
Florentino Jimeno - Collectors

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