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Clay figure

Colour: 10 YR 7/4, very light brown. Blue colour remnants on the wrap skirt and ear peg. Production technique: Press mould, applications. Function: Pipe Type: Tripod B Pose: Standing. Arms at the sides. Clothing: Headdress, conical headgear, with three round discs in front. Wrap-around skirt, opens in a triangular shape, blue coloured skirt underneath. Jewellery: choker. Ear peg, left. Forehead pendant, elongated. Remarks: The feet, the choker, the ear peg and the three round discs on the headdress are appliqués. The headdress and the choker are damaged. The right ear peg is missing. (Sambale 2003)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Maya
Object type
Clay figure
Dimensions
Depth: 13 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
IV Ca 4964

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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Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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