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Clay figure

Colour: 10 YR 7/3, very pale brown. Production technique: Moulded model Function: - 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. Clothing: Petticoat, with a tiered hem just before the lower edge. Jewellery: ear studs. Single-row pearl necklace made of elongated pearls, with double pompom pendant. Pearl bracelets, five rows. Remarks: Long hair with centre parting and layered hairstyle at the front. Heavily weathered and damaged. Figure glued. Body width from arm to arm 12 cm. Two holes in the front, two holes in the back. (Sambale, 2003)

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Maya
Object type
Clay figure
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 19 x 13 x 6,5 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
IV Ca 4861

Provenance and sources

when
Late Classical
where
Mexico
Yucatán [Region]
who
Maya

who
Florentino Jimeno - Collectors

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