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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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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Maya
Object type
Clay figure
Dimensions
Height: 15 cm
Depth: 8 cm
Width: 7,5 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
IV Ca 4956
Related object(s)

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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