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Clay figure

Colour: 7.5 YR 6/4, light brown. Production technique: Moulded model, appliqués. Function: Rattle Pose: Standing, arms raised, hands at nose level and joined to head. Clothing: A hem is recognisable below the hips, but not from what exactly. Jewellery: Ear pegs. Forehead bead. Single-row bead necklace with double pendant made of large, round beads. Remarks: Ear and neck jewellery and the hands are appliqués. Very heavily weathered. Two holes in the front, one hole in the base, one hole in the back. (Sambale 2003)

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Maya
Object type
Clay figure
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 9 x 5,3 x 6 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
IV Ca 4915

Provenance and sources

where
Mexico
Yucatán [Region]
who
Maya

who
Florentino Jimeno - Collectors

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