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Clay figure

Colour: 10 YR 8/1, white (front); 2.5 YR 7/2.5, light, pale brown (tone). Production technique: Moulded model Function: - Pose: Standing. Arms close to the body, hands in front of the body at hip level. Clothing: Headdress consisting of a crescent-shaped disc with nine diagonal bulges in the centre, directly above the head. Shoulder cloth (?), triangular, decorated. Jewellery: earrings. Plate and strap necklace, consisting of three individual straps passing through three holes in a plate. There are three more holes on the other side of the plate, from which the straps emerge again and continue to the next plate. Remarks: Rectangular eyes. Pageboy hairstyle with vertical hair. Heavily weathered, the former white colour has flaked off. The decorations on the shawl (?) can no longer be traced. A hole in the front, a hole in the base. (Sambale 2003)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Maya
Object type
Clay figure
Dimensions
Height: 19,6 cm
Depth: 5,7 cm
Width: 10,5 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
IV Ca 4841

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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