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Clay figure

Colour: 7.5 YR 7/6, reddish yellow. Red to grey-brown paint residues, especially in the recesses of the headdress. Production technique: Hand-modelled, press-moulded. Function: - Type: - Pose: Standing Clothing: Headdress, runs around the entire head. Loops at the sides, curved bands (feathers?) with tied loops at the top left and right. A bead in the centre, to the left and right of it a round, flat disc with small loops (flowers?) running around it. Clothing is not recognisable. Jewellery: ear studs Remarks: Figure damaged, both arms missing. Remains of the left hand (?) in the lower part of the figure. Head modelled, flat at the back. Hair depicted in a U-shape in thick strands. Large, pointed nose and double-framed eyes. A hole in the base (Sambale 2003)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Maya
Object type
Clay figure
Dimensions
Height: 12,5 cm
Depth: 4,3 cm
Width: 6,9 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
IV Ca 4790

Provenance and sources

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

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