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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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Cataloguing data

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

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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